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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2016 / Active

Sallie Updyke Mundy

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Sallie Updyke Mundy is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2016. She previously served on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2016 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–
2016	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mundy authored 105 published opinions for the court (2010–2026), plus 42 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Miller (1,088 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. 184 of these were attributed to Mundy 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
2014	Commonwealth v. Miller†	102 A.3d 988	1,088
2014	Commonwealth v. Newman· Concurrence†	99 A.3d 86	623
2015	Commonwealth v. Leatherby· Dissent†	116 A.3d 73	362
2014	Commonwealth v. Wolfe†	106 A.3d 800	273
2017	Pittman v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole· Concurrence†	159 A.3d 466	263
2014	Commonwealth v. Medina†	92 A.3d 1210	250
2017	Commonwealth v. Jacoby, T., Aplt.· Concurrence†	170 A.3d 1065	229
2014	Commonwealth v. Thompson†	106 A.3d 742	225
2014	Commonwealth v. Cardwell†	105 A.3d 748	153
2014	Commonwealth v. Fennell†	105 A.3d 13	148
2018	In Re: A.J.R.-H. and I.G.R.-H. Apl of KJR Mother· Concurrence†	188 A.3d 1157	146
2014	In the Int. of: X.J. Appeal of: D.A.†	105 A.3d 1	143
2014	Commonwealth v. Lawrence†	99 A.3d 116	136
2012	Commonwealth v. Nero†	58 A.3d 802	130
2013	Southwestern Energy Production Co. v. Forest Resources, LLC†	83 A.3d 177	117

Showing the 15 most-cited of 184 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 is Sallie Updyke Mundy on?: Sallie Updyke Mundy is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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10 years 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).