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 2014 / Active

Patricia H. Jenkins

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Patricia H. Jenkins is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Albright College

Judicial Record

In our data, Jenkins authored 35 published opinions for the court (2014–2016), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Caldwell (679 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. 39 of these were attributed to Jenkins 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	Commonwealth v. Caldwell†	117 A.3d 763	679
2015	Commonwealth v. Gonzalez†	109 A.3d 711	452
2015	Commonwealth v. Swope†	123 A.3d 333	443
2015	Commonwealth v. Reid†	117 A.3d 777	303
2015	Commonwealth v. Jones†	121 A.3d 524	211
2016	Commonwealth v. Rosser†	135 A.3d 1077	108
2016	Commonwealth v. Beasley†	138 A.3d 39	106
2014	Commonwealth v. Rivera†	95 A.3d 913	89
2015	Commonwealth v. Carter†	122 A.3d 388	62
2015	Barton v. Lowe's Home Centers, Inc.†	124 A.3d 349	60
2016	Commonwealth v. Eichler†	133 A.3d 775	54
2015	Northern Forests II, Inc. v. Keta Realty Co.†	130 A.3d 19	52
2016	Commonwealth v. Randolph†	151 A.3d 170	44
2015	Commonwealth v. Wyatt†	115 A.3d 876	43
2015	Drake Manufacturing Co. v. Polyflow, Inc.†	109 A.3d 250	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 is Patricia H. Jenkins on?: Patricia H. Jenkins is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

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12 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).