• Source: 2007 Pennsylvania elections

      • Statewide primary elections for various state offices were held in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on May 15, 2007. Pennsylvania's general elections were then held statewide on November 6, 2007.


      Justice of the Supreme Court



      Two seats were open on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, after Justice Russell Nigro, a Democrat, and Justice Sandra Schultz Newman, a Republican, vacated their seats. Justice Nigro vacated his seat on December 31, 2005, after failing to be retained for an additional 10-year term. Justice Schultz Newman, unlike her counterpart, did succeed in being retained to an additional 10-year term in 2005, but decided to retire on December 31, 2006. Governor Ed Rendell appointed Cynthia Baldwin, a Democrat, and James Fitzgerald, a Republican, to fill the vacancies of Justice Nigro and Justice Schultz Newman, respectively. Neither incumbent Justice sought reelection.
      The election of Justices McCaffery and Todd, flipped the Supreme Court from a 4–3 Republican majority to a 4–3 Democratic majority.


      = Democratic primary

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      Candidates


      Willis W. Berry, Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
      C. Darnell Jones, Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
      Seamus McCaffery, Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
      Debra Todd, Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania


      Results




      = Republican primary

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      Candidates


      Mike Krancer, Chief Judge of the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board
      Maureen Lally-Green, Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
      Paul Panepinto, Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas


      Results




      = General election

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      Results




      Judge of the Superior Court



      Initially, there were only two seats open on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. These seats were open due to the retirement of Judge Joseph A. Del Sole, a Democrat, in September 2006, as well as the impending mandatory retirement of Judge Joseph A. Hudock, a Democrat, on December 31, 2007. Judge Del Sole's seat was held by Judge Robert C. Daniels, a Republican who was appointed by Governor Ed Rendell. Judge Daniels did not run for re-election.
      A third seat was on the November ballot because Judge Michael T. Joyce announced his retirement to be scheduled for January 2008 after being indicted by a grand jury for mail fraud and money laundering. Since Judge Joyce announced his retirement after the May primary, the Democratic and Republican state committees nominated a third candidate at their respective party conventions. Jacqueline Shogan, a Pittsburgh attorney, was chosen as the Republican candidate, after facing opposition from state senator Jane Earll. John Younge, a Judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, was chosen as the Democratic nominee, facing no opposition. Both Shogan and Younge had earlier lost the race for their respective nominations in the May primary.


      = Democratic primary

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      Candidates


      James M. DeLeon, Judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court
      Christine Donohue, commercial litigator, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC; chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners (1990–1996)
      Ron Folino, Judge of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas
      Anne L. Lazarus, Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
      Jimmy Lynn, Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
      Timothy J. McCormick, Greensburg city solicitor
      John Milton Younge, Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas


      Results




      = Republican primary

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      Candidates


      Cheryl Lynn Allen, Judge of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas
      Bruce F. Bratton, Judge of the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas
      Jacqueline O. Shogan, health law litigator


      Results




      = General election

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      Results




      Judicial retention




      = Supreme Court

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      = Superior Court

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      = Commonwealth Court

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