Collins J. Seitz Jr.

Seitz received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Delaware in 1980. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Villanova University School of Law and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1983.{{Cite web |url=https://news.delaware.gov/2015/02/23/governor-markell-nominates-collins-j-seitz-jr-to-delaware-supreme-court-2/ |title=Governor Markell Nominates Collins J. Seitz, Jr. to Delaware Supreme Court |date=2015-02-23 |website=State of Delaware News |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-11 |archive-date=2024-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827174114/https://news.delaware.gov/2015/02/23/governor-markell-nominates-collins-j-seitz-jr-to-delaware-supreme-court-2/ |url-status=live }}

Seitz served as managing partner of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, where he practiced for more than three decades. He was the founding partner of Seitz, Ross, Aronstam & Moritz LLP. In that capacity, he regularly litigated corporate, commercial, and intellectual property cases, and advised clients on issues of Delaware corporate law.

On February 23, 2015, Governor Jack Markell nominated Seitz to be a justice of the Delaware Supreme Court to the seat vacated by Henry du Pont Ridgely who retired on January 31, 2015. He was sworn in on April 14, 2015.

On October 24, 2019, Governor John Carney announced Seitz as his nominee to be the next Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court.{{Cite web |url=https://news.delaware.gov/2019/10/24/governor-carney-announces-delaware-supreme-court-nominations/ |title=Governor Carney Announces Delaware Supreme Court Nominations |date=2019-10-24 |website=State of Delaware News |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-11 |archive-date=2024-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827173954/https://news.delaware.gov/2019/10/24/governor-carney-announces-delaware-supreme-court-nominations/ |url-status=live }} On November 7, 2019, his nomination was confirmed unanimously by the Delaware Senate.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Delaware-Senate-confirms-state-Supreme-Court-picks-14818599.php |title=Delaware Senate confirms state Supreme Court picks |date=2019-11-07 |website=SFChronicle.com |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-11}} He was sworn into office on November 8, 2019.{{Cite press release |title=The Honorable Collins J. Seitz, Jr. Takes the Oath of Office for Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court |date=November 12, 2019 |publisher=Delaware Courts |url=https://courts.delaware.gov/Forms/Download.aspx?id=117488 |access-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-date=August 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240827173954/https://courts.delaware.gov/Forms/Download.aspx?id=117488 |url-status=live }}

Seitz's sister is Virginia A. Seitz, an attorney who served as United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel from 2011 to 2013. His father is Collins J. Seitz, who served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit until his death in 1998.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

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