To find out about your local judges, use our county courthouse locator to find the website for your local courthouse. These sites usually include information about the county’s judges – including the Common Pleas courts, Philadelphia Municipal Court and Traffic Court, the magisterial district judge courts, and, sometimes, the specialty or problem solving courts.

According to the Pennsylvania Manual, "senior judges are ... both retired and former judges who, with their consent, are assigned to temporary judicial service by the Surpreme Court of Pennsylvania."  All judges seeking assignment must have served at least 10 years and not have been defeated for reelection or retention, or, in the case of judges who retired mandatorily at age 70, must have served at least five years.  Senior judges may serve until the last day of the year in which they reach the age of 75; however, judges appointed to senior status prior to the 2002 amendment to Rule 701 may serve until the end of the year inwhich they reach the age of 80.