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 1918 / Served to 1918

Edward J. Fox

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Edward J. Fox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1918. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1859 · age 167
Tenure: 1918–1918

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1918	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fox authored 6 published opinions for the court (1918). Most cited: Leiper v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad (59 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. 6 of these were attributed to Fox 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
1918	Leiper v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad†	262 Pa. 328	59
1918	Dunmore v. Padden†	262 Pa. 436	36
1918	O'Reilly v. Reading Trust Co.†	262 Pa. 337	15
1918	Appeal from Report of Auditors of Dunmore School District—Winters†	262 Pa. 322	6
1918	Osterling v. First National Bank†	262 Pa. 448	3
1918	Phillips' Appeal†	262 Pa. 396	3

Showing the 6 most-cited of 6 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 Edward J. Fox on?: Edward J. Fox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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Joined the court in 1918. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).