Pennsylvania Western District Court
Erie Divisional Office
Third Circuit
17 South Park Row, Room A-150Erie, PA 16501 View on mapJudges serve the whole district — Pennsylvania Western District Court.
Currently serving (14)
Christy Criswell Wiegand2020–present
William Scott Hardy2020–present
Robert John Colville2019–present
Stephanie Lou Haines2019–present
William Shaw Stickman IV2019–present
J. Nicholas Ranjan2019–present
Marilyn Jean Horan2018–present
Cathy BissoonChief Judge2011–present
Mark Raymond HornakChief Judge2011–present
Susan Paradise Baxter2005–present
Nora Barry Fischer2007–present · Senior 
Arthur J. Schwab2002–present · Senior 
David S. Cercone2002–present · Senior 
Joy Flowers ContiChief Judge2002–present · Senior
Former judges (52)
Kim R. Gibson2003–2025
Alan Neil Bloch1979–2024
Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr.Chief Judge1976–2022
Gustave DiamondChief Judge1978–2021
Terrence F. McVerry2002–2021
Peter Joseph Phipps2018–2019
William Lloyd Standish1987–2015
Paul Allen Simmons1978–2014
Sean J. McLaughlinChief Judge1994–2013
Gary L. LancasterChief Judge1993–2013
Donald John Lee1990–2011
Donetta W. AmbroseChief Judge1993–2010
Barron Patterson McCune1970–2008
Glenn Everell Mencer1982–2007
Thomas Michael Hardiman2003–2007
Robert J. Cindrich1994–2004
Donald Emil ZieglerChief Judge1978–2003![D[avid] Brooks Smith](/images-webp/judges/david-brooks-smith.webp)
D[avid] Brooks SmithChief Judge1988–2002
Louis Rosenberg1962–1999
Joseph Putnam Willson1953–1998
Edward Dumbauld1961–1997
Hubert Irving TeitelbaumChief Judge1970–1995
Rabe Ferguson Marsh Jr.Chief Judge1950–1993
Timothy K. Lewis1991–1992
Gerald Joseph WeberChief Judge1964–1989
Carol Los Mansmann1982–1985
William W. Knox1970–1981
Daniel John Snyder Jr.1973–1980
Herbert Peter SorgChief Judge1955–1979
John Lester Miller1954–1978
Wallace Samuel GourleyChief Judge1945–1976
Ralph Francis Scalera1971–1976
Joseph Francis Weis Jr.1970–1973
John Wilson McIlvaine1955–1963
Nelson McVicarChief Judge1928–1960
Frederick Voris Follmer1946–1955
William Alvah Stewart1951–1953
Owen McIntosh Burns1950–1952
Robert Murray GibsonChief Judge1922–1949
Frederic Palen Schoonmaker1922–1945
W. H. Seward Thomson1914–1932
Charles Prentiss Orr1909–1922
James Scott Young1908–1914
Nathaniel Ewing1906–1908
Joseph Buffington1892–1906
James Hay Reed1891–1892
Marcus Wilson Acheson1880–1891
Winthrop Welles Ketcham1876–1879
Wilson McCandless1859–1876
Thomas Irwin1832–1859
William Wilkins1824–1831
Jonathan Hoge Walker1818–1824