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 2001 / Served to 2009

Richard B. Klein

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Richard B. Klein was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2009 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Klein authored 218 published opinions for the court (2002–2009), plus 45 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: In re B.L.W. (1,765 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. 257 of these were attributed to Klein 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
2004	In re B.L.W.· Dissent†	843 A.2d 380	1,765
2008	In the Interest of K.Z.S.· Dissent†	946 A.2d 753	1,228
2003	In re J.L.C.†	837 A.2d 1247	452
2007	Commonwealth v. Robinson· Dissent†	931 A.2d 15	305
2005	Commonwealth v. Berry· Dissent†	877 A.2d 479	245
2002	Commonwealth v. Reppert· Concurrence†	814 A.2d 1196	239
2003	Commonwealth v. Dreves· Dissent†	839 A.2d 1122	231
2003	Commonwealth v. Loner· Dissent†	836 A.2d 125	230
2005	Commonwealth v. Morrison· Dissent†	878 A.2d 102	228
2004	Commonwealth v. Wright	846 A.2d 730	227
2006	Commonwealth v. Fowler· Concurrence†	893 A.2d 758	220
2008	Commonwealth v. Perrin†	947 A.2d 1284	218
2004	Commonwealth v. Boyer	856 A.2d 149	218
2007	Commonwealth v. Beshore· Concurrence†	916 A.2d 1128	183
2006	Commonwealth v. Reeves†	907 A.2d 1	179

Showing the 15 most-cited of 309 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 Richard B. Klein on?: Richard B. Klein was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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8 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).