How do judges of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1998 / Served to 2009

Maureen Lally-Green

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Maureen Lally-Green was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2009 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Duquesne University
Duquesne University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lally-Green authored 96 published opinions for the court (1998–2009), plus 12 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Burton (470 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. 123 of these were attributed to Lally-Green 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
2009	Commonwealth v. Burton· Concurrence†	973 A.2d 428	470
2007	Commonwealth v. Robinson†	931 A.2d 15	305
2002	Commonwealth v. Lutes†	793 A.2d 949	275
2002	Commonwealth v. Lambert†	795 A.2d 1010	273
2005	Commonwealth v. Berry†	877 A.2d 479	245
2007	Commonwealth v. Ramos†	936 A.2d 1097	163
2000	Commonwealth v. Hennigan†	753 A.2d 245	153
2003	John B. Conomos, Inc. v. Sun Co., Inc.†	831 A.2d 696	138
2000	Commonwealth v. Ferguson†	761 A.2d 613	134
2004	Commonwealth v. Davidson†	860 A.2d 575	129
2004	Brown v. Progressive Insurance†	860 A.2d 493	115
2008	Commonwealth v. Strunk†	953 A.2d 577	107
2008	Commonwealth v. Smith†	956 A.2d 1029	106
2000	Donahue v. Federal Express Corp.†	753 A.2d 238	95
2008	Commonwealth v. Dodge†	957 A.2d 1198	93

Showing the 15 most-cited of 123 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 Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Maureen Lally-Green on?: Maureen Lally-Green was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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