Wolf nominates Duquesne U. Law School dean for Pa. high court opening

In this Nov. 5, 2014 file photo, Pennsylvania Democratic Gov.-elect Tom Wolf speaks with members of the media outside the Manchester Cafe the day after he won the gubernatorial election in Manchester, Pa. Wolf might have been off the mark by hundreds of millions of dollars when he said during his campaign that a new severance tax on natural gas drillers would raise more than $1 billion. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) — In this Nov. 5, 2014 file photo, Pennsylvania Democratic Gov.-elect Tom Wolf speaks with members of the media outside the Manchester Cafe the day after he won the gubernatorial election in Manchester, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Gov. Tom Wolf is nominating the dean of the Duquesne University Law School and the president judge of Centre County to fill two vacancies on Pennsylvania’s highest court.
Wolf announced Wednesday that he is naming Duquesne’s Ken Gormley and Judge Thomas Kistler to complete the terms of two former justices that run through the end of this year.
They will replace Chief Justice Ronald Castille, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 last year, and Justice Seamus McCaffery, who resigned last year after being implicated in a pornographic email scandal.
Gormley joined the Duquesne faculty in Pittsburgh in 1994 and serves as dean and as a professor specializing in constitutional matters.
Kistler was elected to the Centre County Court of Common Pleas in 1997.

Wolf nominates Duquesne U. Law School dean for Pa. high court opening

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