The LuLac Edition #3498, May 13th, 2017

JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT 

VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN FOUR

On the Pennsylvania Superior Court, the terms of Judges Jacqueline Shogan, Lillian Harris Ransom, H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr., and Carl Solano are ending. Judge Shogan, as a previous incumbent, filed to stand for retention. Judges Ransom, Moulton, and Solano are 2016 appointees who must stand in a partisan election in order to serve full terms. Moulton filed to run in the election; Ransom and Solano did not.
Carolyn H Nichols Philadelphia County is a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. She was elected in 2011 to a term that expires in January 2022. Prior to her election to the common pleas court in 2011, Nichols held a number of positions, including legislative assistant to former Philadelphia Councilwoman Augusta Clarke, assistant city solicitor, and deputy secretary of external affairs for the office of the mayor of Philadelphia
Geoff Moulton Montgomery County is a judge on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. He was appointed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in June 2016 and confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate on June 27, 2016. He succeeded David N. Wecht, who was elevated to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court effective January 7, 2016.
Judge Moulton filed to stand as a Democrat for partisan election in 2017 in order to remain on the bench 2016-2017: Judge, Pennsylvania Superior Court
2015-2016: Deputy general counsel, Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel
2013-2015: Special deputy attorney general, Pennsylvania attorney general's office
Maria McLaughlin Philadelphia County is a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. She was elected in 2011, and her term expires in January 2022. McLaughlin is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court in 2017. 2011-2022: Judge, Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania1992-2011: District Attorney's Office.
Debbie Kunselman Beaver County is a judge on the Beaver County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. ]Kunselman was elected in 2005. She was retained in 2015. She was the first female judge elected to the 36th district Court of Common Pleas.
Kunselman is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court in 2017. 2006-2026 Judge, Beaver County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania
1998-2005: Solicitor for Beaver County
1996-2005: Attorney, McMillen, Urick, Tocci, Fouse & Jones
Bill Caye Allegheny County  is a 2017 candidate for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court.. He previously was a 2015 candidate for the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. Caye was the senior deputy attorney general in the Child Predator Unit. He has also served as a law clerk for former Chief Judge Donald Ziegler of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and as a legal advisor to Judge Cynthia A. Baldwin of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas.
Craig Stedman is a 2017 candidate for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Stedman was elected district attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2008. Before that he worked as an attorney in the district attorney's office from 1991 to 2008.
Paula A. Patrick is a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. Patrick was first elected to the court in 2003. She was retained in 2013 for a term that expires in 2023. Patrick is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court in 2017
Until her election to the common pleas bench, Patrick spent her legal career in private practice.
Wade A. Kagarise is a judge on the Blair County Court of Common Pleas in Blair County, Pennsylvania. He was elected on November 5, 2013, effective January 2014, for a term that expires in 2023.[ 2014-2023: Judge, Blair County Court of Common Pleas
2001-2013: Attorney, Law Office of Wade Kagarise
2006-2013: Chief deputy district attorney, Blair County District Attorney's Office
1998-2005: Assistant district attorney, Blair County District Attorney's Office
2006-Present: Adjunct professor, Saint Francis University, Department of Criminal Justice/Sociology.
Emil Giordano is a judge on the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. Giordano was first elected to the court in 2003.[ He successfully ran for retention in 2013 for a term that will expire in 2023.[Giordano ran for election to the Pennsylvania Superior Court in 2015.He won the Republican primary but was defeated in the general election.
Giordano is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court in 201
Mary P. Murray is a judge for the Allegheny County Magisterial District in Pennsylvania. She successfully ran for re-election in 2015.
Murray is running for a seat on the Pennsylvania Superior Court in 2017.