Pennsylvania

Justices

• Chief Justice Robert Castille – Term expires 2013 (R)

• Justice Thomas Saylor – Term expires 2017 (R)

• Justice J. Michael Eakin – Term expires 2011 (R)

• Justice Max Baer – Term expires 2013 (D)

• Justice Debra Todd – Term expires 2017 (D)

• Justice Seamus McCaffery – Term expires 2017 (D)

• Justice Joan Orie Melvin – Elected November 2009; term expires 2019 (R)

About the court

The Pennsylvania Court is partisan with a Republican majority (4-3).

Terms are 10 years. The next election cycle is 2011.

Justices in Pennsylvania are elected to an initial term and face a retention re-election for subsequent terms.