JUDICIAL RETENTION RECOMMENDATION

OF THE MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

FOR THE 2025 GENERAL ELECTION

 

August 13, 2025 (Reissued November 3, 2025)

 

The Judiciary Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association is charged with interviewing and rating candidates for the position of Judge on the Court of Common Pleas. The Judiciary Committee is composed of 34 lawyers of diverse backgrounds, ages, practices and geographic areas of Montgomery County with several hundred years of combined legal experience.

 

The Committee is charged to rate a sitting Judge as recommended for retention or not recommended for retention.

 

The Committee considers and rates the candidates on the following criteria:

 

Integrity;

Good moral character;

Industry;

Good health;

Legal ability;

Bench trial, jury trial or evidentiary hearing experience;

Judicial temperament (patience, courtesy, compassion, impartiality, humility, even temper, sense of fairness).

 

The Bar considers this process a service to educate the public concerning judicial candidates.

 

The Montgomery Bar Association RECOMMENDS that the following Judges be retained:

 

The Honorable Daniel J. Clifford               RECOMMENDED

The Honorable Todd D. Eisenberg             RECOMMENDED

The Honorable Risa Vetri Ferman             RECOMMENDED

 

 

Report of the Autonomous Judiciary Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association

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REPORT OF THE AUTONOMOUS JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
OF THE MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION

 

January 28, 2025 (Reissued November 3, 2025)

 

The autonomous and non-partisan Judiciary Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association, tasked with the obligation to pass objectively upon the qualifications of candidates for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has rated the following candidates Highly Recommended or Recommended.

 

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Raymond McGarry
                        

            These candidates possess superior qualifications to serve with distinction as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.  They possess an exceptional level of integrity, good moral character, industry, legal ability and experience, courtroom experience, humility, and judicial temperament, to be rated HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.  These candidates, through these traits and their legal experience, their commitment to justice, the community, and the practice of law, have earned this HIGHLY RECOMMENDED rating from the Committee.  A candidate earns the rating of HIGHLY RECOMMENDED if eighty percent (80%) or more of the voting members of the Committee deem the candidate “Highly Recommended.”

 

RECOMMENDED

Lauren Hughes

Mary Pugh

            These candidates possess the qualifications to serve as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.  Each candidate possesses the appropriate level of integrity, good moral character, industry, legal ability and experience, courtroom experience, humility, and judicial temperament, to be rated RECOMMENDED.  Each candidate has the legal experience, the commitment to justice, the community and the practice of law, and the regard of the legal profession to be rated RECOMMENDED by the Committee.

 

About the Montgomery Bar Association’s Autonomous Judiciary Committee

In its present form since 1965, the Committee is an autonomous, self-governing, committee within the Montgomery Bar Association charged with the obligation to pass upon the qualifications of every candidate for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and to advise the public accordingly.  The Committee is composed of the Association’s ten most recent Past-Presidents as well as elected rotating panels of 24 of the Association’s members-at-large.  The Committee’s members are lawyers of diverse background, ages, practices and geographic areas of Montgomery County and hundreds of years of collective legal experience.

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