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 2014 / Active

Susan Peikes Gantman

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Susan Peikes Gantman is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania
Villanova University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gantman authored 112 published opinions for the court (2004–2020), plus 4 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Brown (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. 84 of these were attributed to Gantman 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
2015	Commonwealth v. Brown†	111 A.3d 171	618
2005	Commonwealth v. Jones	874 A.2d 108	502
2014	A.V. v. S.T.†	87 A.3d 818	394
2005	Commonwealth v. Adams	882 A.2d 496	351
2014	Greater Erie Industrial Development Corp. v. Presque Isle Downs, Inc.· Concurrence†	88 A.3d 222	343
2014	Commonwealth v. Valentine· Concurrence†	101 A.3d 801	340
2015	Commonwealth v. Tyson†	119 A.3d 353	303
2016	Commonwealth v. Zeigler†	148 A.3d 849	258
2014	Commonwealth v. Medina· Dissent†	92 A.3d 1210	250
2014	Commonwealth v. Smith†	97 A.3d 782	231
2016	Commonwealth v. Kelley†	136 A.3d 1007	221
2019	Commonwealth v. Ballance†	203 A.3d 1027	176
2020	Com. v. Watson, E.	228 A.3d 928	165
2019	Commonwealth v. Beatty†	207 A.3d 957	160
2015	Commonwealth v. Smith†	121 A.3d 1049	151

Showing the 15 most-cited of 122 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 is Susan Peikes Gantman on?: Susan Peikes Gantman is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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12 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).