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 2014 / Active

Jack A. Panella

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Jack A. Panella is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Panella authored 181 published opinions for the court (2004–2026), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Buterbaugh (510 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. 43 of these were attributed to Panella 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
2014	Commonwealth v. Buterbaugh†	91 A.3d 1247	510
2005	Commonwealth v. Tirado	870 A.2d 362	476
2007	Commonwealth v. Cook	941 A.2d 7	219
2007	Commonwealth v. Moser	921 A.2d 526	198
2018	Commonwealth v. Conte†	198 A.3d 1169	195
2006	Commonwealth v. Einhorn	911 A.2d 960	136
2006	Commonwealth v. Gallagher	896 A.2d 583	125
2014	Commonwealth v. Vogelsong†	90 A.3d 717	120
2017	Commonwealth v. Knox†	165 A.3d 925	77
2006	Mee v. Safeco Insurance Company of America	908 A.2d 344	68
2022	Com. v. Velez, J.	273 A.3d 6	61
2015	Commonwealth v. Veon†	109 A.3d 754	60
2015	R.L.P. v. R.F.M.†	110 A.3d 201	50
2019	Commonwealth v. Culsoir†	209 A.3d 433	48
2007	Commonwealth v. Williams	920 A.2d 887	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 186 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 Jack A. Panella on?: Jack A. Panella is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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12 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).