Republicans endorse Carolyn Carluccio for seat on Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Pennsylvania Republican Social gathering officers voted Saturday to endorse a Montgomery County choose, Carolyn Carluccio, to be the celebration’s nominee on this 12 months’s election for an open state Supreme Court docket seat.

Social gathering committee members voting at their assembly in Hershey backed Carluccio over two different judges who had sought the endorsement.

Carluccio, the president choose of Montgomery County Frequent Pleas Court docket, beat out Philadelphia Frequent Pleas Court docket Choose Paula Patrick and Commonwealth Court docket Choose Patricia McCullough of Allegheny County. Each McCullough and Patrick misplaced within the celebration’s 2021 major for one more state Supreme Court docket seat.

The state Democratic Social gathering final weekend voted to endorse an appellate courtroom choose from Philadelphia, Daniel McCaffery, for state Supreme Court docket. McCaffery serves on the statewide Superior Court docket, which handles appeals from county courts in felony and civil circumstances.

The first is Could 16. The deadline to file petitions to get on the poll is March 7, and candidates can begin gathering voter signatures on Feb. 14.

The winner in November will serve a 10-year time period on the state’s highest courtroom.

Carluccio, 62, introduced her candidacy in November for the celebration’s nomination. She was first elected to her present submit in 2009 and is a former federal prosecutor and chief public defender of Montgomery County.

The seven-seat excessive courtroom presently has a majority of 4 justices elected as Democrats and two justices elected as Republicans.

One seat is open following the dying final fall of Max Baer, who was chief justice. Baer died solely months earlier than he was to achieve the obligatory retirement age of 75.