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Former Judges

of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Biographies

  • Chief Justice Drew January 1, 1931
  • Judge Stadtfeld November 7, 1931
  • Judge Parker February 23, 1932
  • Judge Arthur James January 1, 1933
  • President Judge Chester Rhodes January 1, 1935
  • Judge William Hirt March 8, 1939
  • Judge Charles Kenworthey April 14, 1941
  • Judge Claude Trexler Reno December 15, 1942
  • Judge Franklin Clair Ross January 18, 1945
  • Justice John C. Arnold April 2, 1945
  • Judge William Heber Dithrich December 29, 1945
  • Judge John Sydney Fine July 15, 1947
  • Judge Gunther April 25, 1950
  • President Judge Wright March 2, 1953
  • Judge Robert E. Woodside October 1, 1953
  • President Judge Harold LeRoy Ervin January 4, 1954
  • President Judge Watkins January 7, 1957
  • Judge Harry Milton Montgomery, Sr. January 5, 1960
  • Judge Gerald Francis Flood January 2, 1961
  • Judge Sydney Hoffman January 4, 1965
  • President Judge Robert Lee Jacobs January 4, 1965
  • Judge Theodore Spaulding March 27, 1966
  • President Judge Cercone January 6, 1969
  • President Judge Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr. January 2, 1973
  • Judge Gwilym Alexander Price, Jr. January 7, 1974
  • Judge Robert Van der Voort January 7, 1974
  • Judge Hester January 3, 1978
  • Judge Donald E. Wieand October 12, 1978
  • Judge Cavanaugh July 31, 1979
  • Judge Richard Brewster Wickersham January 7, 1980
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