Historical List of Superior Court Judges
President Judge |
Assumed Office |
Charles E. Rice | June 28, 1895 |
George B. Orlady | December 19, 1915 |
William D. Porter | December 18, 1925 |
Frank M. Trexler | February 10, 1930 |
William H. Keller | January 7, 1935 |
Thomas J. Baldrige | January 16, 1945 |
Chester H. Rhodes | March 1, 1947 |
Harold L. Irvin | January 4, 1965 |
J. Colvin Wright | January 1, 1968 |
G. Harold Watkins | January 7, 1974 |
Robert Lee Jacobs | January 3, 1978 |
William Franklin Cercone | January 2, 1979 |
Edmund B. Spaeth Jr. | August 11, 1983 |
Vincent A. Cirillo | January 8, 1986 |
James E. Rowley | January 1, 1990 |
Stephen J. McEwen Jr. | January 9, 1996 |
Joseph A. Del Sole | January 9, 2001 |
Kate Ford Elliott | January 9, 2006 |
Correale F. Stevens | January 9, 2011 |
John Bender | August 13, 2013 |
Susan Peikes Gantman | January 7, 2014 |
Judge | Assumed Office |
James A. Beaver | June 28, 1895 |
George B. Orlady | June 28, 1895 |
John J. Wickham | June 28, 1895 |
Edward N. Willard | June 28, 1895 |
Henry J. McCarthy | June 28, 1895 |
Howard I. Reeder | June 29, 1895 |
Peter P. Smith | 1896 |
William W. Porter | September 14, 1897 |
William D. Porter | July 1, 1898 |
Dimmer Beeber | January 2, 1899 |
John I. Mitchell | 1900 |
Thomas A. Morrison | December 30, 1902 |
John J. Henderson | March 11, 1903 |
John B. Head | 1906 |
John W. Kephart | 1914 |
Frank M. Trexler | February 6, 1914 |
J. Henry Williams | 1916 |
William H. Keller | 1919 |
William B. Linn | November 5, 1919 |
Robert S. Gawthrop | April 12, 1922 |
Jesse E.B. Cunningham | 1926 |
Thomas J. Baldrige | January 28, 1929 |
J. Frank Graff | February 18, 1930 |
John G. Whitmore | June 24, 1930 |
James B. Drew | 1931 |
Joseph Stadfelt | November 7, 1931 |
William M. Parker | February 23, 1932 |
Arthur H. James | 1933 |
Chester H. Rhodes | 1935 |
William E. Hirt | March 8, 1939 |
Charles E. Kenworthey | April 14, 1941 |
Claude T. Reno | December 15, 1942 |
Arthur H. James | February 8, 1944 |
F. Clair Ross | January 18, 1945 |
John C. Arnold | April 2, 1945 |
W. Heber Dithrich | December 29, 1945 |
John S. Fine | July 15, 1947 |
Blair F. Gunther | April 25, 1950 |
J. Colvin Wright | March 2, 1953 |
Robert E. Woodside | October 1, 1953 |
Harold L. Ervin | January 4, 1954 |
Philip O. Carr | March 5, 1956 |
G. Harold Watkins | January 7, 1957 |
Harry M. Montgomery | January 5, 1960 |
Gerald F. Flood | January 2, 1961 |
Robert Lee Jacobs | January 4, 1965 |
J. Sydney Hoffman | January 4, 1965 |
Theodore O. Spaulding | March 27, 1966 |
John B. Hannum | January 6, 1968 |
William Franklin Cercone | January 6, 1969 |
Israel Packel | December 31, 1971 |
Edmund B. Spaeth Jr. | January 2, 1973 |
Gwilym A. Price Jr. | January 7, 1974 |
Robert Van der Voort | January 7, 1974 |
John P. Hester | January 3, 1978 |
Donald E. Wieand | October 12, 1978 |
James R. Cavanaugh | July 31, 1979 |
John G. Brosky | January 7, 1980 |
Richard B. Wickersham | January 7, 1980 |
Frank J. Montemuro Jr. | December 16, 1980 |
Richard DiSalle | December 16, 1980 |
Perry J. Shertz | December 16, 1980 |
Zoran Popovich | December 16, 1980 |
Justin M. Johnson | December 16, 1980 |
Stephen J. McEwen Jr. | May 15, 1981 |
Phyllis W. Beck | June 23, 1981 |
Vincent A. Cirillo | January 4, 1982 |
James E. Rowley | January 4, 1982 |
Peter Paul Olszewski Sr. | January 2, 1984 |
Joseph A. Del Sole | January 2, 1984 |
Patrick R. Tamilia | January 2, 1984 |
John T.J. Kelly Jr. | January 8, 1986 |
James R. Melinson | February 10, 1988 |
Joseph A. Hudock | January 1, 1990 |
Kate Ford Elliott | January 1, 1990 |
Thomas G. Saylor | January 7, 1994 |
D. Donald Jamieson | October 3, 1995 |
J. Michael Eakin | December 15, 1995 |
Michael T. Joyce | January 5, 1998 |
Correale F. Stevens | January 5, 1998 |
John L. Musmanno | January 5, 1998 |
Joan Orie Melvin | January 5, 1998 |
Berle M. Schiller | February 11, 1998 |
Maureen Lally-Green | June 5, 1998 |
Debra Todd | January 3, 2000 |
Richard B. Klein | January 6, 2002 |
John T. Bender | January 6, 2002 |
Mary Jane Bowes | January 6, 2002 |
Robert A. Graci | July 19, 2002 |
Susan Peikes Gantman | January 5, 2004 |
Seamus P. McCaffery | January 5, 2004 |
Jack A. Panella | January 5, 2004 |
Robert E. Colville | March 19, 2006 |
Robert C. Daniels | March 28, 2007 |
Christine L. Donohue | January 7, 2008 |
Jacqueline O. Shogan | January 7, 2008 |
Cheryl Lynn Allen | January 7, 2008 |
James J. Fitzgerald | January 7, 2008 |
Robert A. Freedberg | June 30, 2008 |
John M. Cleland | June 30, 2008 |
Anne E. Lazarus | January 4, 2010 |
Sallie Updyke Mundy | January 4, 2010 |
Judith Ference Olson | January 4, 2010 |
Paula Francisco Ott | January 4, 2010 |
William H. Platt | January 3, 2011 |
Eugene B. Strassburger | January 3, 2011 |
David N. Wecht | January 2, 2012 |
Patricia H. Jenkins | January 2, 2014 |
Victor P. Stabile | January 2, 2014 |
Alice B. Dubow | January 4, 2016 |
Carl A. Solano | June 27, 2016 |
Lillian Harris Ransom | June 29, 2016 |
H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr. | August 8, 2016 |
Mary P. Murray | December 15, 2017 |
Maria C. McLaughlin | December 19, 2017 |
Carolyn H. Nichols | December 21, 2017 |
Deborah A. Kunselman | December 22, 2017 |