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| Affiliation | Republican |
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2000-01-01 |
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| Name | Stephen J. McEwen Jr. |
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Upper Darby, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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00, 1932
(92 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Judge McEwen commenced service on the Superior Court in 1981 after appointment by Governor Dick Thornburgh, was elected to full 10-year term in November 1981, was retained for further 10-year terms in the general elections of November 1991 and 2001, and was elected President Judge by the members of the Superior Court for a five-year term commencing January 1996.
While a Judge on the Superior Court, he was twice appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to the Board of Judicial Inquiry and Review, and in 1996, was appointed by Governor Tom Ridge to the Court of Judicial Discipline and elected President Judge by the members of that Court.
Judge McEwen pursued his study of the law at St. Joseph's College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and upon completion of graduate study was awarded, in 1986, the degree of Master of Laws by the University of Virginia Law School.
Judge McEwen, a native of Upper Darby, was an active trial lawyer during 23 years of private practice, and was District Attorney of Delaware County from 1967 through 1976. He served as General Counsel for the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association and, for 10 years commencing in 1975, was a Professor of Trial Advocacy at Villanova University Law School. In 1997 he published Not Even Dicta, a collection of judicial/personal lessons in the law. Judge McEwen has lectured at various law schools, universities, and PBI seminars, and has authored articles published by the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary, the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Policy, the Dickinson Law Review, the Appellate Journal of UALR, the Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer, and Court Review, the Journal of the American Judges Association.
Judge McEwen presently serves upon the Executive Committee of the Council of Chief Judges of State Court of Appeal, as Editor of the periodical of the Appellate Judges Conference, as a member of the ALI Transnational Civil Procedure Section, and as lecturer in Bulgaria in 2000, 2001, and 2002 for the USAID Judicial Development Project. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by DeSales University, Widener University Law School, and the University of Scranton.
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