How do judges of the Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 2017 / Active

Gary F. Traynor

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Gary F. Traynor is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Traynor authored 23 published opinions for the court (2017–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Exelon Generation Acquisitions, LLC v. Deere & Company (72 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. 24 of these were attributed to Traynor 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
2017	Exelon Generation Acquisitions, LLC v. Deere & Company†	176 A.3d 1262	72
2018	Buckham v. State†	185 A.3d 1	54
2019	Leaf Invenergy Co. v. Invenergy Renewables LLC†	210 A.3d 688	53
2019	Baynum v. State†	211 A.3d 1075	35
2019	Verrastro v. Bayhospitalists, LLC†	208 A.3d 720	22
2019	Valentine v. State†	207 A.3d 566	18
2019	Ayala v. State†	204 A.3d 829	12
2019	Burrell v. State†	207 A.3d 137	9
2018	Grimes v. State†	188 A.3d 824	9
2018	Zebroski v. State†	179 A.3d 855	8
2019	Longford-Myers v. State†	213 A.3d 556	6
2018	Cannon v. State†	181 A.3d 615	4
2018	Delaware Board of Nursing v. Francis†	195 A.3d 467	3
2018	Martin v. State†	195 A.3d 1198	1
2018	Walls v. Phelps†	192 A.3d 554	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Gary F. Traynor on?: Gary F. Traynor is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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9 years on the Supreme Court of Delaware. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).