The Honorable M. Teresa Sarmina

Member

Judge Teresa Sarmina is a Common Pleas Court Judge for Philadelphia County, a position she has held since 1998. She is a graduate of St. Mary’s College (South Bend, IN), of the University of Chicago, where she obtained a Masters Degree, and of the Georgetown University Law Center, where she obtained her Juris Doctorate degree. Judge Sarmina served as an Assistant District Attorney and as a Deputy and Senior Deputy Attorney General before being elected to the Court. She has served in the Criminal Trial Division since being elected to the bench and, for the past six years, has been assigned to the Homicide Program where she presides over homicide trials. Her professional affiliations include the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the National Association of Women Judges, the Hispanic Bar Association, and the Temple American Inn of Court. She has also served for the past decade as a Trustee of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Judge Sarmina was appointed to the Board on April 14, 2009. Her current term expires on April 1, 2012.