Judicial Retention Questions
The Job
Retention elections are non-partisan, uncontested yes-no votes in which voters get to decide if a sitting judge should be allowed to serve another term. This differs from an election to fill a judicial vacancy where candidates run in partisan elections (i.e. under a party label.) Following completion of an initial term, a judge can stand for successive ten-year terms in retention elections until he or she reaches age 70, the mandatory retirement age.
Voters will vote YES or NO on each of these candidates:
Superior Court:
Kate Ford Elliott
Commonwealth Court:
Dan Pelligrini
Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia and Regional County Districts
Name District County
Sandy L.V. Byrd 1st Philadelphia
Ida Chen 1st Philadelphia
Pamela Pryor Dembe 1st Philadelphia
Richard J. Gordon 1st Philadelphia
Glynnis Delbert Hill 1st Philadelphia
Benjamin Lerner 1st Philadelphia
Annette M. Rizzo 1st Philadelphia
Karen Shreeves-Johns 1st Philadelphia
Sheila A. Woods-Skipper 1st Philadelphia
Rea B. Boylan 7th Bucks
Allen M. Rubenstein 7th Bucks
Susan Devlin Scott 7th Bucks
William P. Mahon 15th Chester
Robert J. Shenkin 15th Chester
Charles B. Burr II 32nd Delaware
Bernard A. Moore 38th Montgomery
Stephen Barrett 38th Montgomery
Philadelphia Municipal Court
Frank T. Brady
Barbara S. Gilbert
Lydia Y. Kirkland
Gerard A. Kosinski
Marsha H. Neifield
Craig M. Washington
Philadelphia Traffic Court
Bernice Ann DeAngelis
Earlene Green