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 1992 / Served to 1993

Frank J. Montemuro

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Frank J. Montemuro was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1925 · age 101
Tenure: 1992–1993 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Temple University
Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Montemuro authored 705 published opinions for the court (1982–1993), plus 8 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: United Services Automobile Ass'n v. Elitzky (166 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. 25 of these were attributed to Montemuro 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
1986	United Services Automobile Ass'n v. Elitzky	517 A.2d 982	166
1987	Commonwealth v. Krum	533 A.2d 134	142
1983	Commonwealth v. Holmes	461 A.2d 1268	126
1984	Harris by Harris v. Easton Pub. Co.	483 A.2d 1377	121
1987	Gabriel v. O'HARA	534 A.2d 488	106
1993	Commonwealth v. Young†	637 A.2d 1313	105
1993	Commonwealth v. Marshall†	633 A.2d 1100	102
1985	Commonwealth v. Black	487 A.2d 396	102
1984	Metzger v. Clifford Realty Corp.	476 A.2d 1	102
1989	Commonwealth v. Hunter	554 A.2d 550	100
1988	Moses v. McWilliams	549 A.2d 950	100
1993	Commonwealth v. Sam†	635 A.2d 603	99
1985	Banas v. Matthews International Corp.	502 A.2d 637	93
1985	Braderman v. Braderman	488 A.2d 613	90
1993	Commonwealth v. Peterson†	636 A.2d 615	89

Showing the 15 most-cited of 714 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 Frank J. Montemuro on?: Frank J. Montemuro was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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