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 1950 / Served to 1951

Grover C. Ladner

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Grover C. Ladner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1954
Tenure: 1950–1951 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of the Pacific

Judicial Record

In our data, Ladner authored 43 published opinions for the court (1950–1951), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hess v. Westerwick (119 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. 49 of these were attributed to Ladner 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
1950	Hess v. Westerwick†	366 Pa. 90	119
1950	Ross Appeal†	366 Pa. 100	99
1950	TEACHER v. Kijurina†	365 Pa. 480	72
1951	Commonwealth v. Palermo†	368 Pa. 28	69
1951	LaCourse v. Kiesel†	366 Pa. 385	65
1951	Cummings v. Kelling Nut Co.· Dissent†	368 Pa. 448	61
1951	Sawdey Liquor License Case†	369 Pa. 19	55
1950	Margiotti Appeal· Dissent†	365 Pa. 330	46
1951	Elia v. Olszewski†	368 Pa. 578	43
1951	Malamed v. Sedelsky†	367 Pa. 353	35
1951	Commonwealth v. Thompson†	367 Pa. 102	35
1951	Richardson v. Patterson· Dissent†	368 Pa. 495	33
1951	Earle Estate†	369 Pa. 52	32
1950	Shechter v. SHECHTER†	366 Pa. 30	32
1950	Britton v. Continental Mining & Smelting Corp.†	366 Pa. 82	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 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 Grover C. Ladner on?: Grover C. Ladner 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).