Sallie Updyke Mundy was born in Elmira, New York, on June 29, 1962. She has graduated from both Washington & Jefferson College (1984) and the University Pittsburgh School of Law (1987). After earning her Juris Doctorate, she became a law clerk for Common Pleas President Judge Robert M. Kemp, in her home county of Tioga.
Mundy spent nearly two decades in private practice in State College and Philadelphia. She also served on Supreme Court Boards, such as the Disciplinary Board and Interest of Lawyers Trust Accounts (IOLTA). From 2008 to 2009, Mundy returned to Tioga County to be a volunteer public defender. In the Fall of 2009, she successfully ran for and was elected to the Superior Court.
Judge Mundy was sworn in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on January 15, 2010. During her time on the Superior Court, Mundy was a participant in a special argument session at Penn State Dickinson’s School of Law (with Judges Donohue & Allen). On April 1 & 2, 2014, this event was attended and live streamed to other law schools around the Commonwealth and meant to be an educational opportunity to learn how the Courts operate.
Justice Mundy was named one of the The Legal Intelligencer’s Top Women in Law in 2016. That same year she received the prestigious W. Edward Sell ’45 Legal Achievement Award from Washington & Jefferson College–her undergraduate alma mater.
Mundy, was appointed to Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court in July 2016. She was successfully elected to a ten-year term the next year, where she currently sits as an Associate Justice.