Paul Kevin Brobson
Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Assumed office
January 3, 2022
Preceded byThomas Saylor
President Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
In office
January 4, 2021 – January 2, 2022
Preceded byMary Hannah Leavitt
Succeeded byRenée Cohn Jubelirer
Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
In office
January 4, 2010 – January 2, 2022
Preceded byRochelle S. Friedman
Succeeded byMatthew S. Wolf
Personal details
Born (1970-11-26) November 26, 1970[1]
Montoursville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationLycoming College (BS)
Widener University (JD)

Paul Kevin Brobson (born November 26, 1970) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.[2] In 2009, he was elected to serve as a judge on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, where he served until 2022.[3]

Childhood

Brobson was born in Montoursville, Pennsylvania.

Education

Brobson graduated from Lycoming College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting magna cum laude in 1992 and earned his Juris Doctor from Widener University Commonwealth Law School summa cum laude in 1995.

Brobson was a law clerk for the Honorable James McGirr Kelly of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 1996. He was then an attorney at Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney law firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1996 to 2009. In addition to his role as an appellate judge, he served as Widener University Commonwealth Law School jurist-in-residence from 2016 to 2018.[4]

Judicial career

Brobson served on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2022. In the 2021 general election, he was the Republican nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania left by the mandatory retirement of Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor; Brobson narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee, Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Maria McLaughlin and was sworn in on January 3, 2022.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Personal Data Questionnaire - Kevin Brobson" (PDF). Pennsylvania Bar Association.
  2. ↑ "Republican Kevin Brobson wins seat on Pennsylvania Supreme Court as GOP appears poised to sweep appellate races". NorthCentralPA.com. NorthCentralPA.com. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Judge P. Kevin Brobson". The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ "HONORABLE P. KEVIN BROBSON". Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Judge P. Kevin Brobson Sworn in as newest Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania" (PDF).
  6. ↑ Seidman, Andrew (May 19, 2021). "Kevin Brobson wins Republican nomination for Pennsylvania Supreme Court". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Brobson takes oath as state's newest Supreme Court justice". Associated Press. January 4, 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
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