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Doris Smith-Ribner
From Ballotpedia
Doris A. Smith-Ribner was a judge on the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.
She was first elected to a 10-year term on the court in 1987, and was retained for a second 10-year term in November 1997 and a third term in November 2007.[1] She announced her retirement from the court on June 10, 2009.[2]
Career
- Service as a member of the Pennsylvania Judicial Auditing Agency, which is authorized to review and approve audits of state court spending
- Interim term as a Judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County.
- Private practice in law in Allegheny County
- Solicitor for 5 years to the Allegheny County Controller
- Service as a member and chair of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee.
Education
- B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in economics.
- J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972.
- Service as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Retention election
Smith-Ribner's most recent retention election was in 2007.
- Vote to retain: 1,051,793 (62.9%)
- Vote not to retain: 620,319 (37.1%)[3]
External links
- List of judges of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
- Biography of Doris Smith-Ribner from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Historical Society
Footnotes
