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 1994 / Served to 1997

Thomas Saylor

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Thomas Saylor was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–1997 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Saylor authored 147 published opinions for the court (1994–1998), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Johnston the Florist, Inc. v. TEDCO Construction Corp. (362 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. 37 of these were attributed to Saylor 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
1995	Johnston the Florist, Inc. v. TEDCO Construction Corp.	657 A.2d 511	362
1996	Commonwealth v. Rivera	685 A.2d 1011	135
1997	Kingston Coal Co. v. Felton Mining Co.	690 A.2d 284	107
1996	Hunger v. Grand Central Sanitation	670 A.2d 173	91
1995	Dodson v. Elvey· Dissent†	665 A.2d 1223	71
1997	FRANCIS J. BERNHARDT III, PC v. Needleman	705 A.2d 875	64
1997	Soderberg v. Weisel	687 A.2d 839	62
1997	Borden, Inc. v. Advent Ink Co.†	701 A.2d 255	58
1995	Walsh v. Kubiak†	661 A.2d 416	58
1995	Jenkins v. County of Schuylkill	658 A.2d 380	58
1994	220 Partnership v. Philadelphia Electric Co.	650 A.2d 1094	52
1997	Huddleston v. Infertility Center of America, Inc.†	700 A.2d 453	50
1994	Chrysler Credit Corp. v. Smith	643 A.2d 1098	49
1996	Poleri v. Salkind	683 A.2d 649	47
1994	Gilderman v. State Farm Insurance	649 A.2d 941	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 157 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 Thomas Saylor on?: Thomas Saylor was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

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3 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).