James T. McDermott (judge)
James T. McDermott (September 22, 1926 – June 21, 1992) was a Pennsylvania judge and politician who served on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, state's Supreme Court from 1981 until his death in 1992. Before joining the court, he was active in Philadelphia politics as a Republican Party (United States), Republican candidate for Congress in 1958, city council 1962 Philadelphia City Council special election, in 1962, and mayor 1963 Philadelphia municipal election, in 1963. He was a trial court judge on the Court of common pleas (Pennsylvania), Court of Common Pleas from 1965 to 1981. Early life and family James Thomas McDermott Sr. was born in Philadelphia in 1926, the son of Harry Aloysius McDermott and his wife Helen Genoe McDermott. His maternal grandfather, James Genoe, was a Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia Police captain, a fact later said to have contributed to McDermott's law-and-order approach on the bench. His mother, Helen, was a Vaudeville, vaudevillian sin ...
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