Judge Carol K. McGinley
Judge Carol K. McGinley graduated from Manhattanville College in 1970 and earned a J.D. from Georgetown University in 1973. She was Chairman of the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners from 1990 to 1992 and is a past president of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges. She is a former member of the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline. She is the author of “Characterizing Police Encounters Under the Fourth Amendment”, published in the Search and Seizure Law Report, vol. 10, no. 8, September 1983. She was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Lehigh County in 1985 and was retained for a ten-year term in 1995. Judge McGinley currently serves as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges Commission, as chairman of the Judicial Planning Committee of the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, as Vice Chairman of the Supreme Court Juvenile Procedural Rules Committee, and as a member of the Chief Justice Emeritus Advisory Committee on Judicial Education.
