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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1999 / Served to 2007

Debra Mccloskey Todd

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Debra Mccloskey Todd was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2007 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Chatham University

Judicial Record

In our data, Todd authored 233 published opinions for the court (2000–2007), plus 9 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Sierra (756 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. 127 of these were attributed to Todd 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
2000	Commonwealth v. Sierra	752 A.2d 910	756
2000	In the Interest of C.S.†	761 A.2d 1197	681
2003	In Re Adoption of T.B.B.	835 A.2d 387	555
2003	Commonwealth v. Mann	820 A.2d 788	393
2007	Commonwealth v. W.H.M.†	932 A.2d 155	368
2001	Commonwealth v. Shamberger†	788 A.2d 408	280
2001	Commonwealth v. Jordan	772 A.2d 1011	241
2002	Commonwealth v. Fairiror	809 A.2d 396	221
2004	Commonwealth v. Poplawski	852 A.2d 323	191
2000	Miller v. Sacred Heart Hospital	753 A.2d 829	183
2003	Pittsburgh Construction Co. v. Griffith· Concurrence†	834 A.2d 572	174
2007	Commonwealth v. Trippett	932 A.2d 188	168
2003	Commonwealth v. Elmobdy	823 A.2d 180	129
2001	Commonwealth v. Eby	784 A.2d 204	109
2001	Bovard v. Baker†	775 A.2d 835	109

Showing the 15 most-cited of 252 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 Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Debra Mccloskey Todd on?: Debra Mccloskey Todd was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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