How do judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1959 / Served to 1962

Curtis Bok

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Curtis Bok was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (7 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1962
Tenure: 1959–1962 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Williams College
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Bok authored 109 published opinions for the court (1959–1962), plus 11 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Woodhouse (131 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 124 of these were attributed to Bok by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1960	Commonwealth v. Woodhouse· Dissent†	401 Pa. 242	131
1960	Sinkler v. Kneale†	401 Pa. 267	94
1960	Commonwealth v. Scoleri· Dissent†	399 Pa. 110	66
1960	Foley Bros., Inc. v. Commonwealth†	400 Pa. 584	62
1960	Wanamaker Estate· Dissent†	399 Pa. 274	60
1959	Bennett v. Norban†	396 Pa. 94	55
1961	Stemniski v. Stemniski†	403 Pa. 38	54
1960	Neuberg v. Bobowicz· Concurrence†	401 Pa. 146	54
1960	Commonwealth v. Ladd†	402 Pa. 164	53
1959	Peyton v. Margiotti†	398 Pa. 86	52
1960	Wagner Estate†	398 Pa. 531	48
1959	Ferry v. Kownacki†	396 Pa. 283	45
1960	Sgarlat Estate v. Commonwealth†	398 Pa. 406	43
1960	Siciliano v. Misler†	399 Pa. 406	41
1960	46 South 52nd Street Corp. v. Manlin· Dissent†	398 Pa. 304	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 124 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Curtis Bok on?: Curtis Bok was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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3 years on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).