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 William R. Carpenter - RECOMMENDED

The Honorable Steven T. O’Neill - RECOMMENDED

The Honorable Thomas P. Rogers - RECOMMENDED

The Honorable Steven C. Tolliver - RECOMMENDED

The Honorable Gail A. Weilheimer - RECOMMENDED

About the Montgomery Bar Association’s Autonomous Judiciary Committee

In its present form since 1965, the Committee is a non-partisan, autonomous and 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.