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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2010 / Active

Patricia A. McCullough

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Patricia A. McCullough is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McCullough authored 465 published opinions for the court (2010–2026), plus 32 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: Office of the Governor v. Scolforo (107 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. 245 of these were attributed to McCullough 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
2013	Office of the Governor v. Scolforo· Concurrence†	65 A.3d 1095	107
2014	McGowan v. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection†	103 A.3d 374	96
2017	Shore v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections	168 A.3d 374	83
2014	Orange Stones Co. v. City of Reading†	87 A.3d 1014	79
2012	Middletown Township v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review· Concurrence†	40 A.3d 217	76
2015	Kohl v. New Sewickley Township Zoning Hearing Board†	108 A.3d 961	70
2012	Chesson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole†	47 A.3d 875	63
2012	B.K. v. Department of Public Welfare†	36 A.3d 649	62
2019	Barnes v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole†	203 A.3d 382	60
2011	Sherry v. Radnor Township School District†	20 A.3d 515	57
2015	Verizon Pennsylvania Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	116 A.3d 1157	56
2019	Penjuke v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole†	203 A.3d 401	55
2013	Ellis v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	59 A.3d 1159	53
2012	Balletta v. Spadoni· Concurrence†	47 A.3d 183	48
2014	Commonwealth, Office of Open Records v. Center Township†	95 A.3d 354	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 534 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 Patricia A. McCullough on?: Patricia A. McCullough is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

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16 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).