Wolf names two for Supreme Court

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Gov. Wolf on Wednesday tapped a bipartisan duo – a law school dean and a central Pennsylvania county judge – to fill vacancies on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Wolf said he would nominate Ken Gormley, dean and professor at the Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, and Thomas Kistler, president judge of Centre County Court, to the bench…

The vacancies were created by the recent retirements of Justice Seamus McCaffery, who departed after revelations of his role in a pornographic e-mail exchange, and Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, who stepped down after reaching the retirement age of 70… (more)

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