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 2003 / Served to 2007

Seamus P. McCaffery

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Seamus P. McCaffery was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2007 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McCaffery authored 153 published opinions for the court (2004–2023), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: In re L.M. (1,618 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. 96 of these were attributed to McCaffery 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
2007	In re L.M.†	923 A.2d 505	1,618
2005	Commonwealth v. Millisock†	873 A.2d 748	712
2006	In Re Adoption of R.J.S.†	901 A.2d 502	692
2006	Lackner v. Glosser†	892 A.2d 21	450
2007	Commonwealth v. Fowler†	930 A.2d 586	444
2006	Krebs v. United Refining Co. of Pennsylvania†	893 A.2d 776	407
2006	In re N.C.†	909 A.2d 818	186
2007	Hess v. Fox Rothschild, LLP†	925 A.2d 798	136
2006	Commonwealth v. Stevenson†	894 A.2d 759	134
2007	In re A.K.†	936 A.2d 528	127
2006	Commonwealth v. Love†	896 A.2d 1276	127
2006	Commonwealth v. Emler†	903 A.2d 1273	115
2006	Commonwealth v. Pepe†	897 A.2d 463	115
2020	Com. v. Chichkin, I.	232 A.3d 959	107
2007	Vargo v. Schwartz†	940 A.2d 459	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Seamus P. McCaffery on?: Seamus P. McCaffery was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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4 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).