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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2003 / Served to 2004

William H. Lamb

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

William H. Lamb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 2003–2004 · 1 yr

Judicial service

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

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lamb authored 14 published opinions for the court (2003), plus 5 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Fulton (285 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. 29 of these were attributed to Lamb 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
2003	Commonwealth v. Fulton· Concurrence†	830 A.2d 567	285
2003	Grady v. Frito-Lay, Inc.· Concurrence†	839 A.2d 1038	277
2003	Melvin v. Doe†	836 A.2d 42	133
2003	Commonwealth v. Cosnek†	836 A.2d 871	89
2003	Commonwealth v. Brooks· Concurrence†	839 A.2d 245	73
2003	Commonwealth v. Real Property & Improvements Commonly Known as 5444 Spruce Street†	832 A.2d 396	71
2003	Commonwealth v. Williams†	828 A.2d 981	67
2003	Commonwealth v. Hughes· Concurrence†	836 A.2d 893	66
2003	In Re Adoption of S.A.J.· Dissent†	838 A.2d 616	65
2003	Nettleton v. Zoning Board of Adjustment†	828 A.2d 1033	61
2003	Harrisburg School District v. Zogby· Dissent†	828 A.2d 1079	58
2003	In Re Appeal of Realen Valley Forge Greenes Associates†	838 A.2d 718	56
2003	Uniontown Newspapers, Inc. v. Roberts· Dissent†	839 A.2d 185	50
2003	Tribune-Review Publishing Co. v. Westmoreland County Housing Authority· Dissent†	833 A.2d 112	48
2003	Commonwealth v. Bowden· Concurrence†	838 A.2d 740	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 29 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 William H. Lamb on?: William H. Lamb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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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).