Judicial Officers
The Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and four justices who are nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Delaware State Senate.
The justices are appointed for 12-year terms and must be learned in the law and citizens of Delaware. Three of the justices must represent one of the major political parties while the other two justices must be members of the other major political party.
From left to right: Justice Abigail M. LeGrow, Justice Karen L. Valihura (retired), Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz, Jr., Justice Gary F. Traynor, Justice N. Christopher Griffiths
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Chief Justice and Justices
Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz, Jr.
On November 8, 2019, C.J. Seitz was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. He has served as a Supreme Court Justice since 2015. Prior to his appointment, Chief Justice Seitz founded a corporate advisory and litigation firm in Wilmington, Delaware representing clients in corporate and trust disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Supreme Court. He was also a long-time partner in a Wilmington, Delaware law firm, where he litigated corporate and intellectual property disputes.
Chief Justice Seitz is a member of the American Law Institute and advisor to the Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance. He serves as judicial liaison to the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association. He also serves on the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction. A member of the Delaware Bar since 1983, Chief Justice Seitz formerly served as a board member and chair of the Delaware Board of Bar Examiners, and a board member of the Board on Professional Responsibility. Federal and state courts appointed him as a Master and Trustee to oversee complex corporate, commercial, and intellectual property cases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
In 2025 for a one year term, Chief Justice Seitz was elected President of the Conference of Chief Justices and board chair of the National Center for State Courts. He has served as a trustee of the American Inns of Court and serves as a board member of Hockessin Colored School 107C – an organization dedicated to celebrating Delaware’s role as one of the cases appealed in Brown v. Board of Education.
Chief Justice Seitz received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware and his law degree from the Villanova University School of Law.
Justice Gary F. Traynor
The Honorable Gary F. Traynor, was sworn in for his first term as Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on July 5, 2017. Before his appointment, Justice Traynor was a practicing Delaware lawyer for 35 years.
A member of the Delaware Bar since 1982, Justice Traynor began his legal career with a small firm in Dover handling a diverse range of litigation matters. In 1990, he joined the firm of Prickett, Jones & Elliott, where he served as the firm’s Managing Director from 2005 to 2007. For his first ten years with the Prickett firm, Justice Traynor continued to focus on general litigation matters, including criminal defense, personal injury litigation, and domestic relations disputes. In 1999, he transitioned to the firm’s corporate and commercial litigation practice where he remained until leaving the firm in 2014 to join the State of Delaware Office of Defense Services where he served as an Assistant Public Defender defending major felony cases until his appointment in 2017.
Justice Traynor received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1978, and earned his law degree from Delaware Law School of Widener University in 1982.
Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Traynor served on the Delaware Supreme Court’s Board on Professional Responsibility from 2011 to 2017, and was an appointed member of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals’ Task Force on Management of Death Penalty Litigation from 1998 to 2001. Justice Traynor is a past-President of the Terry-Carey American Inn of Court.
In addition to his legal work, Justice Traynor was a commissioner on the Delaware River and Bay Authority from 2009 to 2014. He also served as an officer in the Delaware Army National Guard from 1990 to 1991.
Justice Abigail M. LeGrow
The Honorable Abigail M. LeGrow was sworn in for her first term as Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on May 11, 2023. She previously served as a Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware from February 2016 to May 2023, where she was a member of the Superior Court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division. Before her appointment to Superior Court, Justice LeGrow served as Master in Chancery on the Delaware Court of Chancery from October 2011 to February 2016.
Before joining the judiciary, Justice LeGrow practiced law at Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, where she specialized in corporate and commercial litigation. She is a member of the Richard S. Rodney American Inn of Court (President 2021-2023).
Justice LeGrow received her J.D., summa cum laude, from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law and her B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, from Susquehanna University. While in law school, Justice LeGrow was an editor of the Penn State Law Review and a recipient of the Walter Harrison Hitchler Award and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal Prize. After graduating from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jack B. Jacobs of the Delaware Supreme Court.
Justice N. Christopher Griffiths
The Honorable N. Christopher Griffiths was sworn in for his first term as Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on May 22, 2023. Prior to his appointment, Justice Griffiths was a partner at Connolly Gallagher LLP where his practice focused on administrative and government law, corporate and commercial litigation, bankruptcy law and general litigation representing municipalities and government agencies. Before joining the court, Justice Griffiths served on the Delaware Supreme Court Rules Committee, the Delaware Supreme Court Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, and the Delaware State Bar Association Nominating Committee.
Justice Griffiths received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware and earned his law degree from the Villanova University School of Law.
In addition to his legal work, Justice Griffiths served on the boards of the Boys & Girls Club of Delaware, Children & Families First of Delaware, Ministry of Caring, Sacred Heart Village, the Wilmington Library, and the Delaware Law Related Education Center.
Justice Morgan T. Zurn
The Honorable Morgan T. Zurn was sworn in for her first term as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on July 29, 2026. She previously served as a Vice Chancellor of the Court of Chancery from October 2018 to July 2026. Justice Zurn served as a Magistrate in Chancery from March 2016 to October 2018.
Before joining the judiciary, Justice Zurn was a patent litigator and then a Deputy Attorney General at the Delaware Department of Justice, with a focus on criminal appeals. Justice Zurn is a member of the Richard S. Rodney American Inn of Court.
Justice Zurn holds a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, and a Master's degree in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Virginia. Justice Zurn served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Richard G. Andrews of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
