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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Jeannine Turgeon |
| Address |
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
March 19, 1953 |
| Died |
Still Living
(72 years) |
| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
Jan 27, 2010 07:59am |
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| Info | Judge Jeannine Turgeon is a native of Central Pennsylvania. She was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, on March 19, 1953 and attended elementary school in Lancaster County. She has lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania since the age of nine and graduated from Central Dauphin East High School (1970), prior to attending Chatham College (B.A. 1974) and the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law (J.D. 1977 Class President). Judge Turgeon is enrolled at the National Judicial College for her Master's Degree in Judicial Studies.
Judge Turgeon served as a law clerk to the Honorable Genevieve Blatt of Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania (1977-1979), and then worked as an associate lawyer with the Harrisburg law firm of Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall (1979-1981). In 1991, she formed her own law firm, Campbell, Spitzer, Davis & Turgeon, later Davis & Turgeon, until November of 1991, when she was elected as the first woman judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County and only the third Democrat since its inception over 200 years ago. She served as a member and was Chair (2002-2003) of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Domestic Relations Rules Committee (1997-2003) which drafts new statewide rules on unified family court reform, custody, divorce, child support guidelines, mediation, protection from abuse and related issues. She chaired the Pennsylvania State Trial Judges Family Law Section from 1996 to 2000.
Judge Turgeon is Vice-Chair of the Judicial Security Committee (2005-date); a member of the Governor's Residence Preservation Committee (2008-date); Pennsylvania Task Force on Parenting Coordination (2007-date); which recently revised over 300 standard suggested jury instructions. She also was re-appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve on the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (2003-2009) which researches, develops & recommends sound statewide sentencing guidelines and monitors compliance with the guidelines as mandatory sentencing laws. She is Vice-Chair of the Judicial Security Committee (2005-date); a member of the Governor's Residence Preservation Committee (2008); Pennsylvania Task Force on Parenting Coordination (2007-2008); Executive Committee Zone Representative-PA Conference of State Trial Judges (2008-date); the Steering Committee of Dauphin County Capital Beginnings Early Childhood Initiative (2006-date); the Governor's Pre K Leadership Council (2007-date) and the Community Action Commission (2008-date). Judge Turgeon served as a member of the PA Attorney General's Family Violence Task Force, the Pennsylvania Coalition against Domestic Violence (PCADV) Protection from Abuse Database Project Advisory Committee, Common Pleas Computer Project Committee; The Harrisburg Center for Healthy Child Development (Penn State/Greater Harrisburg Foundation) and Drug Free Pennsylvania Board of Directors.
Judge Turgeon's service during her tenure on the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, a court of general jurisdiction, involves handling all matters civil, criminal, family and equity, including Criminal/Civil bench and jury trials (1992-2008); Support Court (1992-1994; 2000-2008); Emergency Custody Judge (1994-1995); Custody Conciliation Supervisor (1993-1995); Mandatory Seminar for Separating Parents Program Supervisor (1993-1996); Juvenile Court Judge (1996-1997); Mental Health Court Judge (1998-1999); Prison Board Member (1998-1999); Election Board Member (1999); and Protection From Abuse Court Judge (2000-2001).
She has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Widener School of Law and an Associate Professor at Penn State University, Capital Campus. During her current tenure as Domestic Relations Judge in Dauphin County she has instituted many new programs to expedite conferences and increase child support enforcement. As administrative judge of domestic violence cases, she instituted a holistic courtroom approach referring both plaintiffs and defendants to various human service providers including housing, Drug & Alcohol, Mental Health/Mental Retardation, Children & Youth services and batterers' intervention programs. She is Co-chair of the Central Pennsylvania Judges and Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and Judges (LCL) (1992-date). She was instrumental in the creation of the Seminar for Separating Parents program in Dauphin County. During her term as Juvenile Court Judge, she founded the Community Alliance for Youth at Risk (CAYR) work group and developed a Truancy Task Force; she was a delegate to the Presidents' Summit on Youth at Risk and was founding member and Vice-President for the Tri-County Alliance for Youth at Risk.
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