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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1981 / Served to 1982

Roy Wilkinson Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Roy Wilkinson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1915 · age 111
Tenure: 1981–1982 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilkinson authored 22 published opinions for the court (1981). Most cited: Anthony v. Koppers Co., Inc. (145 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. 21 of these were attributed to Wilkinson 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
1981	Anthony v. Koppers Co., Inc.	436 A.2d 181	145
1981	Commonwealth v. Galloway†	434 A.2d 1220	47
1981	Laursen v. GENERAL HOSP. OF MONROE CTY.†	431 A.2d 237	47
1981	Commonwealth v. Butts†	434 A.2d 1216	27
1981	Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Ewing†	436 A.2d 139	25
1981	Commonwealth v. Johnson†	437 A.2d 1175	22
1981	Commonwealth v. Carrier†	431 A.2d 271	20
1981	Commonwealth v. Manning†	435 A.2d 1207	18
1981	Commonwealth v. Jones†	437 A.2d 958	16
1981	Commonwealth v. Bandy†	431 A.2d 240	14
1981	In Re the Estate of Baker†	434 A.2d 1213	13
1981	Commonwealth v. Irwin†	431 A.2d 257	13
1981	Commonwealth v. Dunston†	437 A.2d 1178	9
1981	Commonwealth v. Williams†	431 A.2d 964	9
1981	Commonwealth v. Pinhas†	436 A.2d 618	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Roy Wilkinson Jr. on?: Roy Wilkinson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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1 year on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).