Vincent A. Cirillo was born December 19, 1927 in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Lower Merion High School and Villanova University. President Judge Cirillo entered the Korean War for the US Army and completed both his L.L.B. and JD from Temple Law (1955).
Until 1958, Cirillo served as the law clerk to President Judge Harold G. Knight, in Montgomery County. Over the next four years he was an assistant district attorney for the same Judicial District. From 1963-1970, Judge Cirillo went into private practice. Governor Milton Shapp nominated Cirillo to fill a vacancy on the Common Pleas bench, in 1971, and he won the election the following year. In 1981, Judge Cirillo successfully ran for and was elected to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
In 1986, Cirillo was the first Superior Court Judge selected as President Judge by the judges sitting on the court—previous placeholders had done so via seniority. From 1986-1991, Cirillo helped expand, budget, and formalize the Superior Court by increasing the use of technology and implementing positions and departments such as Court Executive Administrator, Prothonotary, and Legal Systems.
President Judge Cirillo retired in 1997. He passed away on November 28, 2000.