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Article
Abstract
Judge William L. Standish joined R. Stanton Wettick, Jr., Lawrence W. Kaplan, and Eugene B. Strassburger III as the first four judges of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, Family Division, who handled family law cases during the decade of the 1980s when the new Divorce Code (Act 26 of 1980) ushered in a new era of change in family law. Governor Richard Thornburgh appointed William Standish as a judge on November 16, 1979, was confirmed by the Senate on March 18, 1980, and sworn-in on April 2, 1980. He was then elected to a full-term position in November 1981 and served until November 30, 1987 when he was elevated by President Ronald Reagan to a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Repository Citation
Fishman, J. (2018). Judge William L. Standish and His Court Cases In Family Division, Court of Common Pleas Of Allegheny County (1980-1987). Pennsylvania Family Lawyer / Pennsylvania Bar Association, 40 (1). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/law-faculty-scholarship/198