David Wecht was sworn in to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania on January 4, 2012. He began his public service in 1987 as a law clerk for U.S. District Court of Appeals (D.C. Circuit) Judge George E. MacKinnon. After nearly a decade in private practice, Judge Wecht served Allegheny County as the Register of Wills & Clerk of Orphans’ Court from 1998-2003. From 2003 until 2021, he served as a judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. In 2009, he was elevated to Administrative Judge of the Family Division.
During the four years on the Superior Court, Judge Wecht authored over a dozen of his nearly 50 published papers, on topics such as HIV, child custody, the JFK assassination, Veteran’s affairs, and politics. In 2016 Judge Wecht was elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Now-Justice Wecht has been a Professor of Criminal Justice and Law in Israel, China, and in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
Justice Wecht is a graduate of both Yale College and Law School, a member of the armed services, a Harrisburg Honorary Citizenship award winner (2000), and a former member of “Pittsburgh’s Fifty Finest” (1997).