PHILLY.COM / AP: The man who will take over next week as the state’s next chief justice comes from a small town in western Pennsylvania and worked as a prosecutor and a lawyer in private practice before becoming a judge more than two decades ago.
Justice Thomas G. Saylor will be sworn in as chief justice on Jan. 6 after 17 years on the state’s highest court. He will succeed Chief Justice Ronald Castille, who earlier this year reached the mandatory judicial retirement age of 70…
“My priority is to really bear down and make sure that we get our cases through the court and out, the opinions issued in a very timely fashion,” Saylor, 68, said Tuesday. “I think there were some issues with that in the fairly recent past.” … (more)
