Pennsylvania elects its common pleas, superior, and supreme court judges. We are presently short a supreme court judge as she is serving time after recently being sentenced for using state employees to campaign for her on the state payroll.

I once had an oral argument before the PA Supreme Court when one justice, who would later be removed from office for corruption, had accused a fellow justice in public of trying to kill him by running him over in a car. It was very bizarre as they were seated next to each other on the bench leaning away from each other.

These judges, once elected to a ten year term, run for retention. It's rare when a judge is not retained.