President Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer
Term
January 2022 to December 2032
Education
- Duke University School of Law, LL.M., Judicial Studies, 2014
- Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Editor Law Review, 1983
- Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 1978
Professional Experience
- Elected a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, 2001; retained 2011
- Commissioner, South Whitehall Township, 2000-01
- Counsel, ATX Telecommunications Services, 1997-2001
- Assistant Solicitor, Lehigh County, 1997-99
- Deputy Solicitor, Lehigh County, 1996-97
- Arbitrator, Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas, 1994-2001
- Assistant Professor, DePaul College of Law, 1985-87
- Private law practice, 1984-96
- Teaching fellow, Stanford Law School, 1983-84
Memberships and Associations
- Judicial Conduct Board, Vice Chair 2021; Secretary 2020-2021
- Member, Continuing Judicial Education Board of Judges
- Former Chair, Appellate Procedural Rules Committee of the Supreme Court
- Former Co-Chair, Public Access Working Group of the Supreme Court
- Former Member Judicial Advisory Board, George Mason University School of Law, Law & Economics Center
- American, Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Centre County Bar Associations
- Workers’ Compensation Liaison Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Women in the Profession Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
- James S. Bowman American Inns of Court, Master Emeritus
- Wilkinson-Campbell American Inns of Court, Former Master
- Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Lecturer
- Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges
Publications
- Author, “Communicating Disagreement Behind the Bench: The Importance of Rules and Norms of an Appellate Court,” 82 Law and Contemporary Problems 103-132 (2019), available at https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol82/iss2/5.
- Co-author, “The Power of Rulemaking,” a chapter in THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA - LIFE AND LAW IN THE COMMONWEALTH, 1684-2017 (John J. Hare ed., The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018).