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Supreme Court Appoints Lewis to Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board
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March 22, 2013
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today announced the appointment of Tracey McCants Lewis, Esq., to the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board.
Lewis, of Allegheny County, was appointed to a term that expires Nov. 3, 2015.
She is an assistant clinical professor of law at the Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, where she also graduated from in 2000. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at Gannon University in Erie.
Lewis is assistant director of the Duquesne Law Clinic. She previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Max Baer.
The 13-member Disciplinary Board was created by the Supreme Court in 1972 to consider and investigate the conduct of any person subject to the Pennsylvania Rules of Disciplinary Enforcement. Such persons include any:
- attorney admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania
- attorney of another jurisdiction specially admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court for a particular proceeding
- disbarred, suspended or inactive attorney, with respect to violation of any rules committed prior to disbarment, suspension or transfer to inactivity
- justice, judge or magisterial district judge, with respect to any violation of rules committed prior to taking office, if the Judicial Conduct Board declines jurisdiction
- attorney who resumes practice of law, with respect to any nonjudicial acts
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