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Standing (L to R): Judge Johnny J. Butler, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt, Judge P. Kevin Brobson, Judge Patricia A. McCullough Seated (L to R): Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer, Judge Bernard J. McGinley, President Judge Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, Judge Dan Pellegrini, Judge Robert (Robin) Simpson (2010)
Standing (L to R): Mary Hannah Leavitt, Renée Cohn Jubelirer, Robert (Robin) Simpson, Johnny J. Butler Seated (L to R): Dan Pellegrini, Bernard L. McGinley, Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, Doris A. Smith-Ribner, Rochelle S. Friedman (2008)
Standing (L to R): Senior Judge Colins, Judge Covey, Judge Brobson, Judge Leavitt, Judge McCullough, Senior Judge Friedman Seated (L to R):Judge Cohn Jubelirer, Judge McGinley, President Judge Pellegrini, Judge Leadbetter, Judge Simpson (2012-2015)
Standing (L to R): Judge Genevieve Blatt, Judge Doris A. Smith-Ribner, Mary Anne George (secretary to Judge Smith-Ribner) Portraits in Background (L to R): Judge Doris A. Smith-Ribner, Judge Alexander F. Barbieri (1991)
Standing (L to R): James R. Kelley, Bernard L. McGinley, Joseph T. Doyle, Jim Flaherty, Dan Pellegrini Seated (L to R): Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, Doris A. Smith-Ribner, James Gardner Colins, Rochelle S. Friedman (1997)
(L to R): Doris A. Smith-Ribner, William Lederer, Jim Flaherty, Jess Jiuliante, Joseph T. Doyle, Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, James R. Kelley, Charles Mirarchi, Rochelle S. Friedman, Bernard L. McGinley, Dan Pellegrini, Emil Narick, James Gardner Colins, Joseph McCloskey (Judges Lederer, Jiuliante, Mirarchi, Narick and McCloskey were senior judges) (1999)
Standing (L to R): Jim Flaherty, Rochelle S. Friedman, James R. Kelley, Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter Seated (L to R): Doris A. Smith-Ribner, James Gardner Collins, Joseph T. Doyle, Bernard L. McGinley, Dan Pellegrini (2000)
Judge James R. Kelley on his 70th birthday. (2002)
(L to R): Judge Doris A. Smith-Ribner, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt, Judge Rochelle S. Friedman, Judge Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer (2002)
(L to R): Judge Ribner, Justice Eakin, Judge Smith-Ribner, Judge Justin Johnson (2002)
(L to R): Judge Ribner, Judge Kelley, Judge Smith-Ribner, Judge Doyle, Judge Leavitt (2002)
(L to R): Rochelle S. Friedman, Renée Cohn Jubelirer, Charles Mirarchi, Jim Flaherty, Dan Pellegrini, Bernard L. McGinley, Jess Jiuliante, James Gardner Colins, Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, James R. Kelley, Doris A. Smith-Ribner, Joseph McCloskey, Robert (Robin) Simpson, Mary Hannah Leavitt (Judges Mirarchi, Flaherty, Jiuliante, Kelley and McCloskey were senior judges at the time.) (2004)
Standing (L to R): Renée Cohn Jubelirer, Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, Mary Hannah Leavitt, Robert (Robin) Simpson Seated (L to R): Rochelle S. Friedman, Doris A. Smith-Ribner, Dan Pellegrini (2006)