Biography
Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin was elected to the Superior Court in 1995. He was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1970 and earned a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law in 1975.
Justice Eakin was elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2001 and was retained for another ten-year term in 2011. He resigned in 2016.
Justice Eakin died in 2025.
From 1975 to 1983, Justice Eakin served as an assistant district attorney in Cumberland County, and in 1983 was elected District Attorney, a position he held until 1995 when he was elected to the Superior Court.
Additional information is available about Justice Eakin on the website of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.