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No system for choosing judges is perfect, but a hybrid system would be better

Sunday, September 15, 2019

Maida R. Milone/Special to Lancaster Newspaper - Sep 15, 2019 Like many of you, I have not spent most of my adult life thinking about how we select our judges in Pennsylvania. I have fumbled in the voting booth like everyone else trying to figure out who these candidates for judge are and how I...

PMC in the News: Westmoreland judicial candidates spent $750K through spring primary election

Monday, June 24, 2019

Trib Live June 24, 2019 The six candidates who ran for two open judicial seats on the Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas spent more than $750,000 combined through early June. Campaign finance reports filed last week in Harrisburg detailed candidate spending and revealed the growing cost to...

Cover of the Report of the Governor's Judicial Reform Commission

Report of the Governor's Judicial Reform Commission (January 1988)

PMC's founders were motivated to create a new organization following this report from the Pennsylvania Judicial Reform Commission.

Governor Robert Casey commissioned this blue-ribbon panel of civic leaders, public officials, legal professionals, and members of the judiciary. PMC Board member, and