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 2014 / Active

Karen Valihura

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Karen Valihura is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Valihura authored 992 published opinions for the court (2014–2025), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Salamone v. Gorman (267 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. 14 of these were attributed to Valihura 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	Salamone v. Gorman	106 A.3d 354	267
2015	RBC Capital Markets, LLC v. Jervis	129 A.3d 816	202
2016	State v. Culp†	152 A.3d 141	158
2019	Oxbow Carbon & Minerals Holdings, Inc. v. Crestview-Oxbow Acquisition, LLC	202 A.3d 482	126
2018	Eagle Force Holdings, LLC v. Campbell	187 A.3d 1209	125
2016	El Paso Pipeline GP Company, LLC v. Brinckerhoff†	152 A.3d 1248	125
2016	Bradley v. State	135 A.3d 748	117
2016	In Re Viking Pump, Inc. and Warren Pumps, LLC Insurance Appeals†	148 A.3d 633	112
2017	Dell, Inc. v. Magnetar Global Event Driven Master Fund Ltd.	177 A.3d 1	85
2016	Wheeler v. State	135 A.3d 282	84
2015	SIGA Technologies, Inc. v. Pharmathene, Inc.· Concurrence†	132 A.3d 1108	84
2016	Sandys Ex Rel. Zynga Inc. v. Pincus· Dissent†	152 A.3d 124	72
2018	Morrison v. Berry	191 A.3d 268	65
2017	Shawe v. Elting· Dissent†	157 A.3d 152	53
2019	In re Shorenstein Hays-Nederlander Theatres LLC†	213 A.3d 39	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 998 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 is Karen Valihura on?: Karen Valihura is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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12 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).