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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2006 / Served to 2008

Cynthia A. Baldwin

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Cynthia A. Baldwin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2006–2008 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baldwin authored 21 published opinions for the court (2006–2007), plus 16 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Spotz (402 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. 48 of these were attributed to Baldwin 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
2006	Commonwealth v. Spotz· Concurrence†	896 A.2d 1191	402
2007	Commonwealth v. Reaves· Dissent†	923 A.2d 1119	311
2007	Commonwealth v. Ratsamy· Dissent†	934 A.2d 1233	275
2007	Commonwealth v. Cousar· Dissent†	928 A.2d 1025	274
2007	Commonwealth v. Holmes· Concurrence†	933 A.2d 57	257
2007	Commonwealth v. Dillon· Dissent†	925 A.2d 131	244
2006	Commonwealth v. Carson· Concurrence†	913 A.2d 220	237
2007	Donegal Mutual Insurance v. Baumhammers†	938 A.2d 286	218
2007	Salley v. Option One Mortgage Corp.· Dissent†	925 A.2d 115	142
2007	Commonwealth v. Moore· Concurrence†	937 A.2d 1062	131
2006	Commonwealth v. Matthew· Dissent†	909 A.2d 1254	129
2007	American Future Systems, Inc. v. Better Business Bureau· Concurrence†	923 A.2d 389	96
2007	Commonwealth v. Russo· Dissent†	934 A.2d 1199	92
2006	Commonwealth v. Mistler· Concurrence†	912 A.2d 1265	73
2007	Program Administration Services, Inc. v. Dauphin County General Authority· Dissent†	928 A.2d 1013	70

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 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 Cynthia A. Baldwin on?: Cynthia A. Baldwin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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1 year 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).