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| Name | Robert A. Freedberg |
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Easton, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
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February 00, 1944
(80 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
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| Info | President Judge Freedberg graduated from Easton Area High School and from Lafayette College in 1966 with honors. He Received his Juris Doctor Degree in 1969 from Columbia University School of Law. He and his wife reside in Forks Township and have two children.
He has served as President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas since 1991. He began his first ten-year term in 1980, and was elected to his second ten-year term in 1989. From 1989 to 1991, he was Administrative Judge of the Domestic Relations Section. He was retained for a third term in 1999.
From 1970 to 1980, President Judge Freedberg maintained a private law practice in Easton. In addition, he was an Assistant District Attorney in Northampton County from 1973 to 1979 and Assistant Solicitor for the City of Easton from 1976 to 1980.
He is a member of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges, was elected Zone Representative to the Executive Committee 1994-96, served as Chairman of the Intermediate/Small Counties Subcommittee, and as a member of the Education Committee. He was Chairman of the President Judges Committee. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and Northampton County Bar Association.
President Judge Freedberg was nominated for the Arthur Rubloff Memorial Award for leadership and achievement by a disabled individual by United Cerebral Palsy of the Lehigh Valley. He has served as Chairman of the President�s Advisory Board of the Good Shepherd Home. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of United Cerebral Palsy of the Lehigh Valley, and the Board of Directors of Lehigh Valley Legal Services, and is past president of B'Nai Abraham Synagogue, Easton. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed him a member of the Judicial Council of Pennsylvania, a committee of appellate judges, trial judges, lawyers, and citizens which advises the Supreme Court on administrative matters. He was appointed by the Supreme Court to the Intergovernmental Task Force on the District Justice System.
Judge Freedberg received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Lafayette College in 2002. The Lehigh County Bar Association presented the 2002 Liberty Bell Award to Judge Freedberg for distinguished judicial service.
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