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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 2000 / Served to 2013

Myron T. Steele

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Myron T. Steele was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 2000–2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Steele authored 267 published opinions for the court (2001–2023), plus 12 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Central Mortgage Co. v. Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings LLC (790 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. 258 of these were attributed to Steele 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
2011	Central Mortgage Co. v. Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings LLC†	27 A.3d 531	790
2010	Estate of Osborn Ex Rel. Osborn v. Kemp†	991 A.2d 1153	633
2010	Nemec v. Shrader†	991 A.2d 1120	620
2011	Price v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.†	26 A.3d 162	278
2005	Doe v. Cahill†	884 A.2d 451	267
2013	Ploof v. State†	75 A.3d 811	208
2001	Randy v. Progressive Northern Insurance Co.†	785 A.2d 281	191
2010	Kuhn Construction, Inc. v. Diamond State Port Corp.†	990 A.2d 393	187
2006	Kurzmann v. State†	903 A.2d 702	163
2013	Scion Breckenridge Managing Member, LLC v. ASB Allegiance Real Estate Fund†	68 A.3d 665	159
2007	Mahani v. Edix Media Group, Inc.	935 A.2d 242	146
2013	SIGA Technologies, Inc. v. PharmAthene, Inc.†	67 A.3d 330	142
2009	Cooke v. State· Dissent†	977 A.2d 803	132
2002	Cerberus International, Ltd. v. Apollo Management L.P.· Concurrence†	794 A.2d 1141	127
2013	Norton v. K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P.†	67 A.3d 354	124

Showing the 15 most-cited of 282 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 Myron T. Steele on?: Myron T. Steele was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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13 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).