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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2010 / Active

Dan Pellegrini

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Dan Pellegrini is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Duquesne University
Duquesne University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pellegrini authored 445 published opinions for the court (1990–2018), plus 69 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Protz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (95 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. 267 of these were attributed to Pellegrini 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
2015	Protz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	124 A.3d 406	95
2012	Amandeo v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board	37 A.3d 72	89
2010	Moore v. OFFICE OF OPEN RECORDS†	992 A.2d 907	86
2010	Manley v. Fitzgerald†	997 A.2d 1235	62
1991	Koszowski v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board	595 A.2d 697	61
2003	McCarthy v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review	829 A.2d 1266	59
2015	Wilson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole	124 A.3d 767	58
2014	Feldman v. Hoffman· Dissent†	107 A.3d 821	52
2014	Department of Labor & Industry v. Heltzel· Dissent†	90 A.3d 823	52
1990	Berardelli v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board	578 A.2d 1016	51
2010	Stein v. Plymouth Township†	994 A.2d 1179	50
2011	University of Pennsylvania v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	16 A.3d 1225	46
2014	Hunsicker v. Pennsylvania State Police†	93 A.3d 911	45
2010	East Stroudsburg University Foundation v. Office of Open Records†	995 A.2d 496	45
2012	Easton Area School District v. Baxter†	35 A.3d 1259	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 532 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 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Dan Pellegrini on?: Dan Pellegrini is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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