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 / Former Justice

Leo E. Strine

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Leo E. Strine was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Delaware
University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Strine authored 590 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 9 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Leal v. Meeks (169 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. 44 of these were attributed to Strine 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
2015	Leal v. Meeks†	115 A.3d 1173	169
2015	Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC	125 A.3d 304	143
2018	Ramsey v. Georgia Southern University Advanced Development Ctr	189 A.3d 1255	126
2016	El Paso Pipeline GP Company, LLC v. Brinckerhoff· Concurrence†	152 A.3d 1248	125
2015	Brown v. State	108 A.3d 1201	123
2019	Sunline Commercial Carriers, Inc. v. Citgo Petroleum Corporation	206 A.3d 836	119
2017	Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N v. v. Westinghouse Electric Company and WSW Acquisition Co.	166 A.3d 912	114
2016	Genuine Parts Co. v. Cepec	137 A.3d 123	107
2019	Marchand II v. Barnhill	212 A.3d 805	93
2015	Nationwide Emerging Managers, LLC v. Northpointe Holdings, LLC	112 A.3d 878	93
2015	Delaware County Employees Retirement Fund v. Sanchez	124 A.3d 1017	86
2014	C & J Energy Services, Inc. v. City of Miami General Employees'	107 A.3d 1049	77
2016	Sandys Ex Rel. Zynga Inc. v. Pincus†	152 A.3d 124	72
2016	Rauf v. State· Concurrence†	145 A.3d 430	70
2018	Flood v. Synutra International, Inc.	195 A.3d 754	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 609 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 Leo E. Strine on?: Leo E. Strine was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

Sources

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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).