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

Jacqueline O. Shogan

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Jacqueline O. Shogan 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

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Shogan authored 190 published opinions for the court (2008–2021), plus 13 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Hernandez (548 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. 193 of these were attributed to Shogan 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
2013	Commonwealth v. Hernandez†	79 A.3d 649	548
2014	Commonwealth v. Lawson†	90 A.3d 1	514
2010	Commonwealth v. Daniels†	999 A.2d 590	396
2016	Commonwealth v. Williams†	151 A.3d 621	343
2014	Coulter v. Ramsden†	94 A.3d 1080	275
2016	Commonwealth v. Muzzy†	141 A.3d 509	240
2012	In the Interest of R.D.†	44 A.3d 657	232
2011	Commonwealth v. Phillips†	31 A.3d 317	220
2009	Commonwealth v. Manley†	985 A.2d 256	182
2020	In the Int. of: D.R.-W., a Minor Appeal of: D.W.	227 A.3d 905	172
2012	Commonwealth v. Knox†	50 A.3d 732	172
2017	Commonwealth v. Williams†	176 A.3d 298	169
2010	M.A.T. v. G.S.T.· Concurrence†	989 A.2d 11	159
2013	Commonwealth v. Turner†	73 A.3d 1283	152
2013	Pisano v. Extendicare Homes, Inc.†	77 A.3d 651	152

Showing the 15 most-cited of 221 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 Jacqueline O. Shogan on?: Jacqueline O. Shogan 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).