Gov. Tom Wolf bypassed the recommendations of his advisory commission in selecting Superior Court Judge Sallie Updyke Mundy to fill a vacancy on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, sources have told The Legal. In doing so, he chose not to nominate an African-American judge who was ranked by the commission as the most highly qualified candidate, passing up the opportunity to push for diversity on the court.
Wolf, a Democrat, announced Mundy’s nomination Monday, in a joint statement with the state Senate’s majority and minority leaders, Sens. Jake Corman, R-Centre, and Jay Costa, D-Allegheny. He also named nominees for three appointments to the Superior Court, two to the Commonwealth Court, 16 to the courts of common pleas and eight to the magisterial district courts.
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