Scott DiClaudio

Scott DiClaudio

Democratic Party

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas

Tenure

Present officeholder

Term ends

2026

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Elections and appointments

Last election

November 4, 2025

Scott DiClaudio (Democratic Party) is a judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania.

DiClaudio ran for re-election for judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. He won in the retention election on November 4, 2025.

Elections

2025

See also:  City elections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2025)

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas

Scott DiClaudio was retained to the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on November 4, 2025 with 64.2% of the vote.

			Retention  Vote	%	Votes
		✔	Yes	64.2	178,418
			No	35.8	99,433
			Total Votes		277,851

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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for DiClaudio in this election.

2015

See also: Pennsylvania judicial elections, 2015

Pennsylvania's judicial elections included a primary on May 19, 2015, and a general election on November 3, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates was March 11, 2015.

The following candidates ran in the general election.

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, 12 seats, General Election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Kenneth J. Powell, Jr. Incumbent	9.4%	150,720
	Democratic	Mia Roberts-Perez	9.1%	145,722
	Democratic	Kai Scott	8.9%	143,461
	Democratic	Tracy Brandeis-Roman	8.8%	141,304
	Democratic	Abbe Fletman Incumbent	8.7%	140,026
	Democratic	Lyris Younge	8.3%	133,420
	Democratic	Stephanie M. Sawyer	7.8%	124,875
	Democratic	Michael Fanning Incumbent	7.5%	119,823
	Democratic	Chris Mallios	7.5%	119,757
	Democratic	Daine A. Grey Jr.	7.4%	119,141
	Democratic	Rainy Papademetriou	7.3%	117,702
	Democratic	Scott Diclaudio	7.0%	112,577
	Republican	Vincent Furlong	2.3%	36,186
Total Votes				1,604,714
Source: Pennsylvania Department of State, "Unofficial General Election Results," November 3, 2015

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary.

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, 12 seats, Democratic Primary, 2015
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Kenneth J. Powell, Jr. Incumbent	4.7%	53,682
Kai Scott	4.6%	51,923
Tracy Brandeis-Roman	4.5%	51,028
Abbe Fletman Incumbent	4.1%	46,533
Mia Roberts-Perez	3.8%	42,778
Lyris Younge	3.6%	40,815
Rainy Papademetriou	3.5%	39,802
Scott Diclaudio	3.5%	39,678
Daine A. Grey Jr.	3.4%	38,151
Chris Mallios	3.0%	34,428
Michael Fanning Incumbent	2.9%	33,310
Stephanie M. Sawyer	2.9%	33,199
Jennifer Schultz	2.9%	32,825
Leon Goodman	2.8%	31,853
Vincent Melchiorre Incumbent	2.6%	29,548
Frances Fattah	2.6%	29,116
Brian Ortelere	2.5%	28,514
Stella Tsai	2.4%	26,957
Deborah Watson-Stokes	2.4%	26,656
Thomas Martin	2.3%	26,602
Jon Marshall	2.2%	24,922
Sandjai Weaver	2.1%	23,950
Lynne M. Summers	2.1%	23,896
Betsy Wahl	2.1%	23,662
James Berardinelli	2.0%	22,783
Anthony Kyriakakis	1.9%	21,718
Lucretia Clemons	1.8%	20,636
Vincent Furlong	1.8%	20,189
Leon King II	1.7%	19,781
Edward Louden Jr.	1.7%	19,664
Marissa Brumbach	1.7%	19,558
Wayne Bennett	1.6%	17,758
Chris McCabe	1.5%	16,628
Jodi Lobel	1.5%	16,449
Vince Giusini	1.4%	16,363
Shanese Johnson	1.4%	15,368
Rania Major	1.2%	13,798
Joshua Hill	1.2%	13,471
Sherman Toppin	1.1%	12,627
William Ciancaglini	0.9%	9,762
Franklin Bennett III	0.7%	7,653
Tangie Boston	0.7%	7,491
Write-in votes	0%	0
Total Votes		1,125,525
Source: Philly Election Results, "May 19, 2015 Municipal Primary & Special Election Results," May 20, 2015

Bar association rating

DiClaudio was not recommended by the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Endorsements

DiClaudio's 2015 endorsements included the following:

• Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO

Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Scott DiClaudio did not complete Ballotpedia's 2025 Candidate Connection survey.

Noteworthy events

Public censure from supreme court (2016)

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a public censure to Scott DiClaudio for serial misconduct in relation to his work as a criminal defense attorney. DiClaudio appeared before the supreme court on March 9, 2016. "Any future misconduct will result in prompt and considerable punishment," said Justice Debra Todd.

The incident in question involved DiClaudio's representation of Ahmed Khalil. Khalil pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm without a license in 2007. He was sentenced to four years of probation and went to jail in 2011 after violating his probation. DiClaudio filed an appeal but did not file the necessary paperwork. DiClaudio did not tell Khalil when the appeal was dismissed. The supreme court rebuked DiClaudio for neglecting and abandoning his client.

DiClaudio was previously disciplined for other incidents in 2003, 2008 and 2011.

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Footnotes

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