Debra Todd

Debra McCloskey Todd (born October 15, 1957) is an American lawyer who serves as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

She and her sisters, Mary and Nancy, were reared in that Wayne Township borough, which is located in Lawrence County.

[3] She is married to Stephen K. Todd, a former attorney for the United States Army who retired from the U.S. Army Reserve at the rank of colonel, and who had been an attorney for U.S. Steel for thirty-one years before retiring in 2007 as vice president of law and environmental affairs.

During the fall of 1999, she ran for, and was elected to the position of, judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania,[7] serving from January 17, 2000, to December 31, 2007.

[10] On October 1, 2022, she became the first female chief justice of the state Supreme Court, replacing Max Baer who died a day earlier.