Samuel B. Ickes graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1996 and the Dickinson School of Law in 1999. Sam clerked for Commonwealth Court Judge Jim Flaherty in the early 2000s. Following his clerkship, he worked for the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. In 2019, he returned to the Court as a Staff Attorney in the Office of Chief Legal Counsel. He is originally from Bedford, and now lives in York with his wife and son.

Mr. Talaber is a staff attorney in the Prothonotary’s Office of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Previously, Mr. Talaber was a deputy judicial clerk for then President Judge P. Kevin Brobson of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Talaber served three years as Board Secretary to the Pennsylvania Parole Board, managing its transition from paper to electronic records, developing workflow and process improvements, and overseeing the Board’s parole decision administrative review process. Mr. Talaber was also an assistant counsel with the Parole Board for nine years where he focused on inmate appellate litigation, agency procurement, and Right-to-Know-Law issues. As assistant counsel, Mr. Talaber also served as the legal advisor to the Pennsylvania Office of Victim Advocate. Mr. Talaber began his legal career as an assistant counsel with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, focusing on inmate litigation in state and federal courts. Mr. Talaber received his B.A. from West Virginia University (1992) and his J.D. from Widener University Commonwealth Law School (1998).

Judge Stacy Wallace won election to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in Nov. 2021 and is serving a 10-year term. Judge Wallace earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh and her Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law. Prior to joining the Court, she clerked for then Superior Court Judge John Cleland as well as Common Pleas Court Judge John H. Yoder. Dedicated to serving those in need, Judge Wallace also served as a specially appointed law master and Sex Offender Registration & Notification Act Counsel and as an attorney for more than a decade representing clients in both the private and public sectors, working on behalf of non-profit organizations and offering pro bono services to represent victims of domestic violence, individuals with developmental disabilities and children in crisis and abuse situations. Committed to the importance of legal education, Judge Wallace also worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford and as an instructor for continuing legal education courses for attorneys. Judge Wallace has been active in numerous community organizations including the American Red Cross, Downtown Bradford Revitalization Corporation, the Guidance Center, which provides resources and guidance to those struggling with mental illness and intellectual disabilities, and she served on the Board of Directors of the Court Appointed Special Advocates of McKean County.

Paul Ritchey is a Staff Attorney with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. Prior to his service at the Court, he was in private practice. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Brigham Young University.

The legal career of Judge Lori A. Dumas has spanned over 30 years. She served on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas for 19 years before being elected to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in 2021. While on the Court of Common Pleas, she served in every major trial division and immediately prior to her election to the Commonwealth Court, she was assigned to the Civil Trial Division where she presided over civil jury and non-jury trials with an extensive caseload, including, but not limited to, Contracts, Property Disputes, Equitable Title Issues and Real Estate Transactions. Since taking her seat on the Commonwealth Court in 2022, Judge Dumas has had several of her Opinions published. She was also appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve on its Judicial Ethics Advisory Board. Judge Dumas is a graduate of Duke University and North Carolina Central University School of Law. She completed the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, DiverseForce Board Governance Program and is also a Georgetown Fellow, specializing in Crossover Systems. Judge Dumas also holds an Executive Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University.

Mr. Krimmel was appointed Chief Clerk of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in November 2006. He formerly served as staff counsel to the Minor Court Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In 2001, Mr. Krimmel also served on the staff of the Supreme Court’s Intergovernmental Task Force to Study the District Justice System. Before joining the appellate court staff, he worked in Pennsylvania county courts for 14 years as deputy court administrator for the 23rd Judicial District (Berks County) and Bail & Pretrial Services Administrator for the Second Judicial District (Lancaster County). While a county court administrator, Mr. Krimmel was active in the Pennsylvania Association of Court Management (PACM), having served as chair of PACM’s Special Courts Management Committee and as an ex officio member of the Minor Court Rules Committee. He is currently a member of the National Association of Appellate Court Clerks. Mr. Krimmel has taught various legal studies courses at area colleges for more than 17 years and has lectured for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He received his J.D. from Widener University School of Law and his B.A. from American University.

Judge Ceisler was elected in November 2017 to a ten-year term on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania beginning January 2018. Prior to this election, Judge Ceisler had completed a 10-year term as an elected Judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. During her tenure on the Common Pleas bench, Judge Ceisler handled a wide variety of cases in the Civil and Criminal Trial Divisions, as well as Civil Motions Court where she presided over governmental agency issues with both original and appellate jurisdiction. Judge Ceisler received her B.A. from Temple University (1979) and her Juris Doctorate from Temple University in 1986. Since her admission to the Bar in 1986, Judge Ceisler has had a varied career including serving as a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney, an Investigative Producer for CBS News, a litigator in private practice, Special Advisor to the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, Director of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Integrity and Accountability Office, and Director of the Special Investigations and Fraud Unit for the Philadelphia City Controller’s Office. Over the years Judge Ceisler has been involved in The Anti-Defamation League (Executive Board Member), Support Center For Child Advocates (Board Member and pro-bono attorney), Hearing member for the Attorney Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, New Leash on Life USA (Board Member), Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, and the First Judicial District Committee on the Board of Revision of Taxes and Board of View (Co-chair).

Judge Patricia A. McCullough commenced her first ten-year term on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in January 2010, and in 2019, she was retained to serve her second ten-year term. She previously served as a Judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County when she was appointed in 2005 by the Governor and the unanimous consent of the Pennsylvania State Senate. Judge McCullough was a three-term member of the Allegheny County Board of Property Assessment Appeals and Review, serving as its chair and vice chair; Assistant General Counsel at the University of Pittsburgh, an Adjunct Faculty Member and member of the NCAA Career Counseling Panel; Executive Director of the Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh overseeing the implementation of its free healthcare center; in private practice; a judicial law clerk, and a law clerk in the Appellate Division of the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. She is a 1978 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, was a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellow, and received her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law in 1981. She studied International Law and Human Rights in 1980 at the University of Strasbourg. Judge McCullough was appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve on the Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee in April 2016, and also as its chair. She has served on committees of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny Bar Associations. She served on the Boards of the Foundation of HOPE, the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, the advisory board for the Storehouse for Teachers, the STEAM school for disadvantaged male youth, and a faith- based women’s ministry for healing and unity among all denominations, ethnic and racial backgrounds. Judge McCullough volunteers in many activities to improve the system of justice and help those in need, which have included: teaching CLE courses for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, ACBA and other legal and community organizations; serving as a volunteer teacher for the Foundation of HOPE’s Allegheny County Chaplain’s prison ministry; working with the Women’s Law Divisions of ACBA to implement a speaker series for HOPE’s aftercare program; participating in the ACBA anti-bullying program in the elementary schools; and volunteering with other various programs within the justice system to assist disabled veterans, restore victims, establish a faith-based residential drug rehabilitation facility, assist youth at risk; and enable programs to reduce recidivism. 

Judge Fizzano Cannon was elected to a ten-year term on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in November 2017, for which she was rated “highly recommended” by the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Judicial Evaluation Commission.  She previously served as a trial court judge on the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas from 2012-2017, where she was the head of the civil trial section.  Prior to becoming a judge, Judge Fizzano Cannon was in private practice for 17 years and was a municipal solicitor for various governmental entities. Judge Fizzano Cannon’s public service includes her tenure as a county commissioner on the Delaware County Council from 2008 to 2011, where she was elected Council Vice Chairman in January 2010. She served from 1999 to 2007 on Middletown Township Council, and previously served on Middletown Township’s Zoning Hearing Board. Judge Fizzano Cannon has worked to promote ethics in the profession as a member of the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board, the Governor’s Judicial Advisory Committee and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee. Judge Fizzano Cannon is an inaugural member at the Master level on the Drexel University Kline School of Law American Inn of Court. She is a member of the Delaware County Bar Association, where she served two two-year terms on its Board of Directors, and is also a member of the Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. Among her many civic and charitable endeavors, Judge Fizzano Cannon has served on the boards of directors of a local hospital, a healthcare foundation, a regional finance authority, an arboretum and a women’s commission. Judge Fizzano Cannon is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Delaware Law School, where she graduated with honors and served as the Articles Editor of the Law Review. 

Mr. McKeon is a partner in the Harrisburg law firm Hawke McKeon & Sniscak LLP. An experienced appellate advocate and government law practitioner, he is co-author of West’s Pennsylvania Appellate Practice and past Chair of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee. He has briefed and argued appeals in all of Pennsylvania’s appellate courts, and served as lead counsel in original jurisdiction actions before the Commonwealth Court. He has also briefed and argued appeals in the federal courts, including the Ninth, D.C. and Third Circuits. Mr. McKeon is a founder of and regular contributor to Pennsylvania Appellate Advocate, https://paablog.com/ a blog that provides timely coverage and analysis of notable appellate decisions, allocatur grants, upcoming arguments, proposed and adopted rule changes, and other information of interest to lawyers, litigants, and others involved in or affected by issues presented in appeals in Pennsylvania’s appellate courts. Mr. McKeon is a frequent lecturer and panel moderator on appellate issues and on topics in administrative law, and is the 2014 recipient of the James S. Bowman award for outstanding practice and mentoring in administrative law. In addition to his appellate practice, he appears regularly before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and other state and federal administrative agencies and courts in matters involving public utility regulation, gaming, insurance regulation, medical marijuana, and professional licensing. Before entering private practice Mr. McKeon served as law clerk to the Honorable James S. Bowman, first president judge of the Commonwealth Court, and as that court’s first Deputy Prothonotary for Law. He is a graduate of La Salle University and the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. 

President Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer attended The Pennsylvania State University before graduating from Northwestern University School of Law in 1983. President Judge Cohn Jubelirer received her LL.M. in Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law in 2014. She served as a teaching fellow prior to entering into private practice where she remained until she was elected to the Commonwealth Court in November of 2001 for a ten-year term; she was subsequently retained for additional ten-year terms in November 2011 and November 2021. Her colleagues elected her to serve as the 11th President Judge of the Commonwealth Court on January 7, 2022. Since assuming the bench, President Judge Cohn Jubelirer remains active in various professional organizations and has taught professional responsibility at Penn State Dickinson School of Law. President Judge Cohn Jubelirer currently serves as Chair of the Judicial Conduct Board and as Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Commission on Judicial Independence. In 2016, President Judge Cohn Jubelirer completed her service on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee, which she chaired for five years. President Judge Cohn Jubelirer also previously served as Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Public Access Working Group – Trial and Appellate Court Records, which recommended a new public access policy that the Supreme Court adopted in January 2017 and assisted with its implementation. In 2017, she was also appointed by the Supreme Court as an inaugural member of the Continuing Judicial Education Board of Judges; she was reappointed in 2018 for a two-year term, which ended in December 2020. She was appointed as a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Task Force on Statewide Electronic Filing and Retrieval in May of 2022. President Judge Cohn Jubelirer serves on the Workers’ Compensation Liaison, Appellate Advocacy, Judicial Administration and Women in the Profession Committees of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the Council of Chief Judges of the State Courts of Appeal, and Master Emeritus of the James S. Bowman American Inns of Court. President Judge Cohn Jubelirer’s publications include “Communicating Disagreement Behind the Bench: The Importance of Rules and Norms of an Appellate Court,” 82 Law and Contemporary Problems 103-132 (2019), available at https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol82/iss2/5. She is also a coauthor of “The Power of Rulemaking,” a chapter in The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania – Life And Law In The Commonwealth, 1684-2017 (John J. Hare ed., The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018).

Mr. Myers is Co-Chair of the Appellate Practice Group at Stevens & Lee in Philadelphia and Harrisburg. He has two decades of experience arguing and briefing a wide variety of precedent-setting and high stakes appeals before the appellate courts of Pennsylvania and other jurisdictions. Mr. Myers maintains a particular focus on cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme, Commonwealth, and Superior Courts, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His arguments often appear on the Pennsylvania Cable Network and in various legal publications, which seek him out as an appellate commentator. Mr. Myers often serves as a panelist and moderator for appellate practice presentations and continuing legal education seminars. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Appellate Advocacy Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, is a Past Chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Historical Society. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Third Circuit Bar Association. Mr. Myers also serves on the Board of Directors and as Pennsylvania State Chair for the Council of Appellate Lawyers of the American Bar Association’s Appellate Judges Conference. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Russell M. Nigro of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania after receiving his law degree, cum laude, from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. During law school, Mr. Myers served as a clerk for the Honorable John T.J. Kelly Jr. of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the Honorable Yvette Kane of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and was selected for the Appellate Moot Court Board, Dickinson Law Review, and Woolsack Honor Society. 

Judge Wojcik was elected to Commonwealth Court on November 3, 2015 and was commissioned and took the oath of office on January 4, 2016. Prior to his election, Judge Wojcik was engaged in the private practice of law for over 26 years with several law firms, including Kirkpatrick & Lockhart; Weinberg & Stein; LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae; and Thorp Reed & Armstrong. He also served as Solicitor to the Allegheny County Controller, as Allegheny County Solicitor, and as Solicitor to the Allegheny County Airport Authority. In the course of his private and public practice, Judge Wojcik gained experience in myriad areas of the law, including municipal law, tax and assessment law, election law, civil rights, and personal injury, to name a few, and managed the second largest municipal law department in the Commonwealth. Judge Wojcik earned a B.A. at Juniata College and a J.D., cum laude, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he was a member of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, serving as Symposium Editor for volume 50. A native of the Borough of Central City, Somerset County, Judge Wojcik earned the rank of Eagle Scout and remains active in the Boy Scouts of America, serving as an Assistant Scoutmaster and Committee Chair of Troop 646, located at St. Bede Church in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He also is chair of the Lackawanna District of the Laurel Highlands Council, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Laurel Highlands Council. He has served as a youth basketball coach, as general manager of the East End Boys Lacrosse Club and as vice president of the parents’ committee of the Oakland Catholic Rowing Club. Judge Wojcik’s home chambers are in Pittsburgh.