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Report of the Autonomous
Judiciary Committee of the
Montgomery Bar Association*

he 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,
Recommended, or Not Recommended.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Daniel G. Ronca
This candidate possesses superior qualifications to serve
with distinction as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He possesses an exceptional
level of integrity, good moral character, industry, legal ability and
experience, courtroom experience, and judicial temperament,
to be rated as HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. The candidate,
through these traits and his legal experience, his commitment
to justice, the community, and the practice of law, has 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
Katherine E. McGill
A. Nicole Tate-Phillips
Mary C. Pugh
These candidates possess the qualifications to serve as Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania. Each possesses the appropriate levels of integrity,
good moral character, industry, legal ability and experience,
courtroom experience, and judicial temperament, to be rated as
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.

*Originally released on February 2, 2021. Since that date, one candidate has been endorsed: A. Nicole Tate-Phillips by
the Montgomery County Democratic Committee.
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