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 1985 / Served to 2003

Joseph T. Walsh

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Joseph T. Walsh was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1985–2003 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Walsh authored 252 published opinions for the court (1986–2003), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Wainwright v. State (430 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. 259 of these were attributed to Walsh 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
1986	Wainwright v. State†	504 A.2d 1096	430
1992	Merrill v. Crothall-American, Inc.†	606 A.2d 96	407
1995	Brzoska v. Olson†	668 A.2d 1355	367
1999	Emerald Partners v. Berlin†	726 A.2d 1215	343
1992	Citadel Holding Corp. v. Roven†	603 A.2d 818	235
1996	Wright v. State†	671 A.2d 1353	221
1989	Barkan v. Amsted Industries, Inc.†	567 A.2d 1279	209
1988	Getz v. State†	538 A.2d 726	204
1987	Jardel Co., Inc. v. Hughes†	523 A.2d 518	198
1993	City Investing Co. Liquidating Trust v. Continental Casualty Co.†	624 A.2d 1191	168
1989	Cavalier Oil Corp. v. Harnett†	564 A.2d 1137	154
2000	Lord v. Souder†	748 A.2d 393	143
1998	Outten v. State†	720 A.2d 547	138
2002	Telxon Corporation v. Meyerson†	802 A.2d 257	135
1997	Kahn v. Tremont Corp.†	694 A.2d 422	122

Showing the 15 most-cited of 259 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 was Joseph T. Walsh on?: Joseph T. Walsh was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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