Introducing Linda Judson 

Linda Judson, a distinguished and successful Pittsburgh attorney, won Democratic nomination for Judge of the Commonwealth Court in the May 19 primary.

Linda’s legal credentials speak for themselves, as a quick study of her Professional Biography on this website will demonstrate.

Her professional credentials are only part of the story. Linda Judson’s personal history provides her with a unique perspective to bring to the bench.

Linda is a lifelong Pittsburgher educated in the public school system.  She is a University of Pittsburgh alum and a graduate of Duquesne University School of Law.  After high school, Linda’s dream was to attend medical school.  Coming from a family of modest means headed by her widowed mother, Linda knew she would have to work her way through college.

To that end, in 1978 she enrolled in the Licensed Practical Nursing program at St. Francis Hospital.  The next year she married and started a family of her own.  And, with her LPN license in hand, Linda began night school at University of Pittsburgh and spent the next six years earning a degree in political science, working full-time as a nurse and raising her son, Anthony.

While attending Pitt, Linda became interested in studying law.  She saw an opportunity to apply her interest and knowledge of medicine to the practice of law and found the legal profession eager to encourage her.  She was accepted in the night program at Duquesne University School of Law and spent the next four years studying law while clerking full-time at law firms that recognized the value of her medical background.

Linda has never lost touch with her interest in caring for others, solidly founded in a nursing background that included two years counseling developmentally challenged adults.  She has served on boards and supported organizations on the frontline of social and human services, beginning with the Drug and Alcohol Council of Allegheny County while she was still in law school.  

Linda is an active volunteer with Therapy Dogs International.  She and her husband generously share their time and their family dog Maxwell, lifting the spirits of nursing home residents, hospital patients and families in crisis.

Linda’s husband of twenty years, Bill Judson, teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and at Robert Morris University.  For many years Bill was Curator of Film and Video at Carnegie Museum of Art, where he ran a popular multi-cultural international film series.    Linda and Bill are active supporters of Pittsburgh art organizations and programs.