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Honorable Thomas G. Saylor


Term
January 2008 - December 2017

Education
University of Virginia (B.A.), 1969
Columbia University School of Law (J.D.), 1972
University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.), 2004

Professional Experience
General practice of law, 1972-82
First Assistant District Attorney, Somerset County, 1973-76
Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection, Director, 1982-83
First Deputy Attorney General, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1983-87
Private law practice, 1987-93
Elected a judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Court, 1993
Elected a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1997

Memberships and Associations
American Bar Association, Appellate Judges Conference
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Cumberland County Bar Association
Dauphin County Bar Association
American Law Institute
Widener University School of Law, Board of Overseers

Awards and Honors
Widener University School of Law, Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), 2002

Publications
"Prophylaxis in Modern State Constitutionalism: New Judicial Federalism and the Acknowledged, Prophylictic Rule," 59 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 283

Personal
Born: 1946, Meyersdale, Pa.