Bernard L. McGinley was a judge of the

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. He attended

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and the

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. He worked as a judicial law clerk for the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. He was an Assistant District Attorney for Allegheny County from 1971 to 1974. He was an instructor of

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for the Allegheny County Community College from 1974 to 1975. From 1975 to 1981 he was in private law practice. He was Chairman of the Board of Viewers for Allegheny County from 1975 to 1980. In 1981, he was elected judge of the

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of Allegheny County in 1981. In 1987, he was elected judge of the

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. He retired in 2016 after serving as a member of that court for 28 years.

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