David Norman Wecht (born May 20, 1962)[1] is an American attorney and jurist, who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania since 2016.
He then attended Yale College, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society and graduated with the distinction summa cum laude for his studies in history and political science in 1984.
Wecht served as Allegheny County's elected register of wills and clerk of orphans' court from 1998 to 2003, and then trial judge from February 2003 until January 2012,[6][7] working extensively in the civil and family divisions.
They defeated Republican candidates Judith Olsen, Michael George, and Anne Covey in a campaign that has been described by media outlets and advocacy groups as the "most expensive judicial election in U.S.
[11][12] In November 2020, Wecht ruled in a lawsuit challenging the Joe Biden's victory in Pennsylvania that the effort to overturn the results of the election was "futile" and "a dangerous game.