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Cheryl Lynn Allen (born December 16, 1947) became the first African-American woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. [6] A Pittsburgh native and former Pittsburgh public school teacher, Judge Allen is a graduate of Penn State University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She spent fifteen years practicing law before ...
University of Pittsburgh (JD) Occupation. Attorney. Chelsa L. Wagner (born July 24, 1977) is an American politician currently serving as a Judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Wagner previously served as the Allegheny County Controller. She resigned her position at the beginning of 2022, prior ...
Jolene Grubb Kopriva (1978): [55] First female judge in Blair County, Pennsylvania (1987) Harriet Mims: [56] First female judge in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Diane Gibbons: [57] First female District Attorney for Bucks County, Pennsylvania (2000) Jean Horan: [58] First female judge in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Cynthia Baldwin. Cynthia Anita Ackron Baldwin (born February 8, 1945) is an American jurist who was a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after serving sixteen years as a Pennsylvania County Court judge. Baldwin was the first African-American woman elected to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and the second African-American woman ...
Amherst College (B.A. 1960); Yale University (LL. B. 1963) Ralph Stanton Wettick Jr. is a retired United States judge who served on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania 's Fifth Judicial District, [1] from 1976 to 2016. He was a leading authority on discovery under Pennsylvania's Rules of Civil Procedure ...
Sara Mathilde Soffel (October 27, 1886 – October 5, 1976) [1] [2] was an American lawyer and judge from Pennsylvania. She was Pennsylvania's first woman judge, serving on the Allegheny County Courts from 1930 to 1941 and on the Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court from 1942 to 1962. In 1939, she was the first woman to run for the Supreme Court of ...
She served as solicitor for the Allegheny County Controller from 1980 to 1984. [3] Smith-Ribner served as a judge of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on an interim basis from 1984 to 1985. [3] She was first elected to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in 1987 and was re-elected in 1997 and 2007. [3][8]
The courts of common pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state. The name derives from the medieval English court of Common Pleas. Pennsylvania established them in 1722. [1] They hear civil cases with a significant amount in controversy and trials for serious crimes. They have original jurisdiction over all cases not ...