How do judges of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2008 / Served to 2011

Johnny J. Butler

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Johnny J. Butler was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2008–2011 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Butler authored 81 published opinions for the court (2008–2011), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Richards v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole (66 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. 85 of these were attributed to Butler 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
2011	Richards v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole†	20 A.3d 596	66
2011	Pennsylvania State Troopers Ass'n v. Scolforo†	18 A.3d 435	38
2010	SWB YANKEES LLC v. Gretchen Wintermantel†	999 A.2d 672	35
2011	Shamokin Area School District v. American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees District Council 86†	20 A.3d 579	32
2009	Stancavage v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing†	986 A.2d 895	29
2011	Pohlig Builders, LLC v. Zoning Hearing Board of Schuylkill Township†	25 A.3d 1260	25
2010	Pennsylvania Builders Ass'n v. Department of Labor & Industry†	4 A.3d 215	25
2009	Yourick v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing†	965 A.2d 341	24
2009	In Re Estate of Ryerss· Concurrence†	987 A.2d 1231	22
2009	Highway Materials, Inc. v. Board of Supervisors of Whitemarsh Township†	974 A.2d 539	21
2011	Green v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	28 A.3d 936	20
2010	Rock v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	6 A.3d 646	20
2009	Pennsy Supply, Inc. v. Zoning Hearing Board of Dorrance Township†	987 A.2d 1243	20
2009	Quigley v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing†	965 A.2d 349	19
2010	Allen v. State Civil Service Commission†	992 A.2d 924	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 87 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 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Johnny J. Butler on?: Johnny J. Butler was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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