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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2012 / Active

Mary Hannah Leavitt

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Mary Hannah Leavitt is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Connecticut College

Judicial Record

In our data, Leavitt authored 732 published opinions for the court (2002–2026), plus 25 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Stepp v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (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. 197 of these were attributed to Leavitt 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	Stepp v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	99 A.3d 598	92
2015	Wise v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	111 A.3d 1256	85
2018	D. Smoak v. J.J. Talaber, Esq., Secretary PBPP	193 A.3d 1160	60
2016	Consolidated Reports & Return by the Tax Claims Bureau of Northumberland County of Properties· Dissent†	132 A.3d 637	58
2012	Cytemp Specialty Steel v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Crisman)†	39 A.3d 1028	49
2017	Hawbaker v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	159 A.3d 61	40
2014	G.H. v. Department of Public Welfare†	96 A.3d 448	36
2014	Pennsylvania State Police v. McGill· Dissent†	83 A.3d 476	35
2018	California Borough v. A.G. Rothey	185 A.3d 456	32
2018	N.G. Jenkins v. Fayette County TCB v. S.D. Bush	176 A.3d 1038	31
2015	Peake v. Commonwealth	132 A.3d 506	31
2015	Morgan v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review· Dissent†	108 A.3d 181	31
2014	The Honorable v. Spencer, Mayor of the City of Reading v. City of Reading Charter Board	97 A.3d 834	31
2014	Scott v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	105 A.3d 839	29
2003	Wheeler v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board	829 A.2d 730	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 763 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 Mary Hannah Leavitt on?: Mary Hannah Leavitt is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

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14 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).