Jane Greenspan
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Jane Cutler Greenspan is an associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. She was appointed to this position in 2008 by Ed Rendell, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Ralph Cappy.Consistent with expected tradition for interim appointees, Judge Greenspan left the court when her term expired in December of 2009.[1]
Prior to her appointment to Pennsylvania's highest court, Greenspan was a judge for 20 years with the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas.[2]
Greenspan is the second woman to serve on the high court panel.
Greenspan is a Democrat and the justice she replaced was a Republican. Her appointment to the court amounts to a shift in partisan balance on the court from 4 Republicans/3 Democrats to 4 Democrats/3 Republicans.[2]
Legal career
Greenspan was first elected to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in 1989 after a career in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Ed Rendell was Philadelphia's district attorney at that time; he put Greenspan in charge of domestic violence cases and, in 1980, asked her to lead the DA's appellate division. Greenspan served in that position from 1980-1987.[3]
2009 election campaign
- Main article: Pennsylvania Supreme Court elections
Greenspan is not running for election to the seat she was appointed to. Greenspan has expressed interest in becoming the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. [4]
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