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 1978 / Served to 1994

David W. Craig

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

David W. Craig was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1994 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Craig authored 1,605 published opinions for the court (1978–2009), plus 71 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Bray v. Zoning Board of Adjustment (173 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. 1,409 of these were attributed to Craig 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
1980	Bray v. Zoning Board of Adjustment†	48 Pa. Commw. 523	173
1986	Johnson v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review· Dissent†	94 Pa. Commw. 24	102
1980	Campbell v. Commonwealth†	48 Pa. Commw. 454	80
1983	Commonwealth v. Mumma†	79 Pa. Commw. 108	54
1982	Jenkintown Towing Service v. Zoning Hearing Board†	67 Pa. Commw. 183	54
1979	Conduit & Foundation Corp. v. City of Philadelphia†	41 Pa. Commw. 641	52
1984	Corley v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole†	83 Pa. Commw. 529	48
1984	Richardson v. LaBuz†	81 Pa. Commw. 436	45
1981	Wimbish v. School District†	59 Pa. Commw. 620	45
1989	Epps v. BD. OF PROBATION & PAROLE†	565 A.2d 214	44
1980	Maffei v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation†	53 Pa. Commw. 182	43
1993	Shapiro v. Center Tp., Butler County· Concurrence†	632 A.2d 994	42
1981	Beckert v. American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, District Council 88· Dissent†	56 Pa. Commw. 572	42
1979	Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Quinlan	47 Pa. Commw. 214	41
1979	Zemprelli v. Thornburgh	47 Pa. Commw. 43	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,704 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 was David W. Craig on?: David W. Craig was 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).