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 2008 / Active

Eugene B. Strassburger III

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Eugene B. Strassburger III is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Strassburger authored 186 published opinions for the court (2011–2021), plus 15 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Flowers (617 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. 211 of these were attributed to Strassburger 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	Commonwealth v. Flowers· Dissent†	113 A.3d 1246	617
2013	Commonwealth v. Cintora†	69 A.3d 759	327
2014	Commonwealth v. Lippert†	85 A.3d 1095	195
2012	Commonwealth v. Brown†	48 A.3d 426	173
2020	Com. v. Rivera, W.	238 A.3d 482	165
2016	Commonwealth v. Tukhi†	149 A.3d 881	165
2019	Commonwealth v. Maddrey†	205 A.3d 323	159
2014	Commonwealth v. Seskey· Concurrence†	86 A.3d 237	157
2015	Commonwealth v. Ferguson†	107 A.3d 206	117
2013	Commonwealth v. Brown†	64 A.3d 1101	116
2012	Commonwealth v. Stradley†	50 A.3d 769	113
2017	Commonwealth v. Morrison†	173 A.3d 286	112
2012	Commonwealth v. Walsh†	36 A.3d 613	112
2012	Commonwealth v. Hoppert· Concurrence†	39 A.3d 358	108
2019	E.B. v. D.B.†	209 A.3d 451	107

Showing the 15 most-cited of 239 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 is Eugene B. Strassburger III on?: Eugene B. Strassburger III is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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18 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).