Sallie Updyke Mundy


Sallie Updyke Mundy is an Associate Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and a former judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Early life and education

She was born in Elmira, New York and was raised in Tioga, Pennsylvania.
In 1984, she graduated from Washington & Jefferson College. In 1987, she graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Legal career

After law school she served in a judicial clerkship for the Tioga County Courts of Common Pleas. In 1988, she entered private practice, working as a defense attorney in the field of medical malpractice.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Mundy was appointed by Governor Tom Wolf to the seat vacated by Justice J. Michael Eakin on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and confirmed on June 27, 2016.
On November 8, 2017, Justice Mundy defeated Dwayne Woodruff to gain a ten-year term on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Personal life

She is part-owner of a small cattle farm, raising Scottish Highland cattle, in Tioga County.