Patrick R. Tamilia
Patrick R. Tamilia was born in Pittsburgh’s West End section on April 28, 1932. He served with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam and was a commissioned artillery officer during the Korean War. Judge Tamilia completed all of his higher education at Duquesne University. He served Allegheny County as a home detention supervisor for delinquent […]
Joseph A. Del Sole
Joseph A. Del Sole was born in Pittsburgh on November 16, 1940. He received a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). Judge Del Sole continued in the “Steel City” with a Law School degree from Duquesne University and refreshed to a Master of Laws from the University of […]
James E. Rowley
James E. Rowley was born on April 8, 1926, in Tarenturn, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Aliquippa High School in 1944 and attended both Geneva College and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Rowley served as a Private First Class in the US Army during World War II. When he returned home, Rowley married Ruth Ann Agnew […]
Vincent A. Cirillo
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 […]
Peter Paul Olszewski
Judge Peter Paul Olszewski hailed from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and completed work at the Wyoming Seminary. He attended Lafayette College for his undergraduate degree and a JD in 1952 from St. John’s University School of Law. Olszewski was drafted into the US Army and served as a Staff Sergeant in the China-Burma-India theater of operations. Upon […]
Phyllis W. Beck
Phyllis W. Beck was born on October 7, 1927 in Brooklyn, NY and raised in the Bronx. She graduated from Hunter College High School (1945), followed by Brown University’s Pembroke College for Women (1949). Judge Beck spent two years in the publishing field in Massachusetts. First, she worked as a researcher for Time magazine, and […]
Stephen J. McEwen, Jr.
Judge McEwen was born on October 8, 1932 in Philadelphia. A lifelong resident of Delaware County, President Judge Emeritus McEwen was raised in Upper Darby. He attended St. Joseph’s High School, St. Joseph’s University, and studied law at St. Joseph’s and the University of Pennsylvania. He spent 23 years as a trial lawyer before being […]
Justin M. Johnson
Judge Johnson was born just outside of Pittsburgh in Wilkinsburg, PA on August 19, 1933. He attended the University of Chicago, on an academic scholarship, leading to a Bachelor of Arts (1954) and a Bond Medal. After graduation from college, Johnson served as a Major in the Air Force from 1954-59. His younger brother, The […]
Zoran Popovich
Judge Zoran Popovich was born on February 4, 1931, in Akron, Ohio. He graduated from high school in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1948. His higher education pursuits began at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1954 and later, an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh Law School in 1957. Judge […]
Frank J. Montemuro, Jr.
Justice Frank J. Montemuro, Jr. was born in Philadelphia on October 27, 1925. A product of Temple University and Duke University Law School, Montemuro served in the US Navy, during World War II. He was stationed in occupied Northeast China after the war. Montemuro began his judicial service in 1964 and was elected Administrative Judge […]