Paul Kevin Brobson (born November 26, 1970) is a justice of the

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. In 2009, he was elected to serve as a judge on the

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, where he served until 2022.

Childhood

Brobson was born in

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Education

Brobson graduated from

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with a

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in Accounting and Economics ''

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'' in 1992 and earned his

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from

Widener University Commonwealth Law School Widener University Commonwealth Law School (Widener Law Commonwealth) is a law school located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and part of Widener University, a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. It is one of two separate ABA-accredited l ...

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'' in 1995.

Legal work experience

Brobson was a

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for the Honorable James McGirr Kelly of the

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from 1995 to 1996. He was then an attorney at

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC is an American law firm and lobbying group based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm has more than 450 lawyers in offices in 15 U.S. cities. As of 2022, Buchanan Ingersoll is the third-largest law firm in Pittsbur ...

law firm in

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from 1996 to 2009. In addition to his role as an appellate judge, he served as

jurist-in-residence from 2016 to 2018.

Judicial career

Brobson served on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2022. In the 2021 general election, he was the Republican nominee to fill the vacancy on the

left by the mandatory retirement of Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor; Brobson narrowly defeated the Democratic nominee,

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Judge Maria McLaughlin and was sworn in on January 3, 2022.

References

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