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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2012 / Active

Renee Cohn Jubelirer

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Renee Cohn Jubelirer 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

Northwestern State University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Jubelirer authored 262 published opinions for the court (2006–2026), plus 13 dissents and 13 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. 129 of these were attributed to Jubelirer 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†	65 A.3d 1095	107
2018	Whitfield v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.†	188 A.3d 599	91
2018	Garlick v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing	176 A.3d 1030	58
2017	F. Minor v. Sgt. D. Kraynak	155 A.3d 114	58
2016	Consolidated Reports & Return by the Tax Claims Bureau of Northumberland County of Properties	132 A.3d 637	58
2017	Brown v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole	184 A.3d 1021	57
2014	Coppolino v. Noonan†	102 A.3d 1254	53
2015	Summit School, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Department of Education†	108 A.3d 192	51
2016	Kerak v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole· Dissent†	153 A.3d 1134	49
2006	City of Hope v. Sadsbury Township Zoning Hearing Board	890 A.2d 1137	43
2012	Grand Sport Auto Body v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	55 A.3d 186	36
2012	Solar Innovations, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	38 A.3d 1051	36
2016	Lindemuth v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board	134 A.3d 111	34
2015	Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Ass'n v. Commonwealth, Department of Environmental Protection	135 A.3d 1118	34
2018	Dana Holding Corp. v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd.	195 A.3d 635	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 288 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 Renee Cohn Jubelirer on?: Renee Cohn Jubelirer 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).