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 1991 / Served to 2009

Rochelle S. Friedman

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Rochelle S. Friedman was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2009 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Friedman authored 908 published opinions for the court (1992–2017), plus 211 dissents and 70 concurrences. Most cited: Weaver v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole (134 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. 1,052 of these were attributed to Friedman 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
1997	Weaver v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole· Dissent†	688 A.2d 766	134
1993	McCaskill v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole· Concurrence†	631 A.2d 1092	133
1994	Tapco, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	650 A.2d 1106	109
1994	Meier v. Maleski†	648 A.2d 595	103
2007	Clark v. Beard· Dissent†	918 A.2d 155	90
2006	Western & Southern Life Insurance v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review	913 A.2d 331	75
2006	Docherty v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	898 A.2d 1205	68
2008	Procito v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review· Dissent†	945 A.2d 261	63
2002	Commonwealth v. Spontarelli· Dissent†	791 A.2d 1254	63
2007	Williams v. Stickman	917 A.2d 915	61
1998	Campbell v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	705 A.2d 503	57
2002	J.S. Ex Rel. H.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District	794 A.2d 936	56
1993	McKeesport Hospital v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review· Dissent†	625 A.2d 112	55
2000	Taylor v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole· Dissent†	746 A.2d 671	54
2001	Henion v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board	776 A.2d 362	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,189 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 was Rochelle S. Friedman on?: Rochelle S. Friedman was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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18 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).