The Hon.

Collins

J.

Seitz

Jr.

The Honorable Collins J. Seitz, Jr. was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on November 8, 2019. 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 high profile corporate and trust disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Supreme Court.  He was also a long-time partner in a large Wilmington, Delaware law firm, where he litigated corporate and intellectual property disputes.

Chief Justice Seitz serves as Judicial Liaison to the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association and is an Advisor on the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance.  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.

Chief Justice Seitz 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’ role as one of the cases appealed in Brown v. Board of Education. He has led court efforts in Delaware to promote greater diversity in the Delaware Bar through the Delaware Bench and Bar Diversity Project.  Under Chief Justice Seitz’s leadership, major changes were made recently to the Delaware Bar Exam to make the State a more attractive and welcoming place to practice law and engage in public service.  

Chief Justice Seitz received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware and his law degree from the Villanova University School of Law.