predecessor successor birth_place office termstart birth_date article_title name alma_mater
ronald d. castille incumbent meyersdale , pennsylvania chief of the supreme court of pennsylvania justice of the supreme court of pennsylvania justice january 6 , 2015 1997 14 december 1946 thomas g. saylor
 thomas g. saylor university of virginia columbia law school
thomas g. saylor

thomas g. saylor is the chief justice of pennsylvania .
he is a member of the republican party .
prior to his election to the supreme court , he served as a judge of the superior court of pennsylvania .
he was born in meyersdale , somerset county , pennsylvania .
he received a b.a. university of virginia in 1969 , a j.d. from columbia university school of law in 1972 , and a l.l.m. from the university of virginia school of law in 2004 .
saylor worked as a prosecutor in somerset county from 1972 to 1982 , before serving as a director of the pennsylvania bureau of consumer protection from 1982 to 1983 .
he was first deputy attorney general for pennsylvania from 1983 to 1987 , and served on the superior court of pennsylvania from 1993 to 1997 .
he was elected to the supreme court of pennsylvania in 1997 , and became chief justice in 2015 , when ronald d. castille left the court on reaching the mandatory retirement age .
