SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: Pennsylvania judges could work five years longer before facing mandatory retirement under a bill approved on a near-unanimous vote Tuesday by a Senate committee.
The Judiciary Committee voted to increase the retirement age from 70 to 75 for state justices, common pleas court judges and magisterial district judges. The panel chairman, Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-12, Willow Grove, described the bill as a compromise between those who want no change and those who want no retirement-age mandate.
Supporters said it would remove an arbitrary age limit established four decades ago that doesn’t reflect people having longer lifespans… (more)
