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 2010 / Active

Kevin P. Brobson

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Kevin P. Brobson is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Lycoming College

Judicial Record

In our data, Brobson authored 361 published opinions for the court (2010–2021), plus 21 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Henderson v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (92 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. 244 of these were attributed to Brobson 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	Henderson v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	77 A.3d 699	92
2011	Allegheny County Department of Administrative Services v. A Second Chance, Inc.†	13 A.3d 1025	92
2012	Middletown Township v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	40 A.3d 217	76
2013	Armstrong County Memorial Hospital v. Department of Public Welfare of Pennsylvania†	67 A.3d 160	67
2010	Oliver v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review· Dissent†	5 A.3d 432	64
2014	Department of Labor & Industry v. Heltzel· Dissent†	90 A.3d 823	52
2017	Constantini v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review	173 A.3d 838	46
2016	Serrano v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	149 A.3d 435	44
2014	Thomas v. Corbett†	90 A.3d 789	43
2011	Commonwealth v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections†	14 A.3d 912	38
2011	Governor's Office of Administration v. Purcell· Concurrence†	35 A.3d 811	37
2011	Rohde v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	28 A.3d 237	36
2011	Office of the Governor v. Bari†	20 A.3d 634	36
2014	Williams Holding Group, LLC v. Board of Supervisors of West Hanover Township†	101 A.3d 1202	35
2010	Piasecki v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing†	6 A.3d 1067	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 395 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 is Kevin P. Brobson on?: Kevin P. Brobson is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

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16 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).