Program Book for the 250th Anniversary - Flipbook - Page 11
A frequent lecturer to bench, bar, and community groups throughout Pennsylvania and in several other states, Justice
Wecht also serves or has served for many years on the faculties of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne
University, the College of General Studies of the University of Pittsburgh, the Harry Radzyner Law School of Reichman
University (Israel), and the East China University of Political Science and Law. Justice Wecht’s extra-judicial writings have
appeared in a number of publications, including the Yale Law Journal, Gonzaga Law Review, Widener Commonwealth
Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly, Pennsylvania Lawyer, Pennsylvania
Family Lawyer, Pittsburgh Legal Journal, Tablet, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, Midstream, and
others. Justice Wecht also serves or has served as a Fellow or Member of several professional organizations, including
the American Law Institute, the Allegheny County Bar Foundation, and the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania
Conference of State Trial Judges. He has volunteered his time to a number of governmental, civic, and community boards
and groups, including the Parent Education & Advocacy Leadership Center, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Domestic
Relations Procedural Rules Committee, the Law Enforcement Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on
Crime and Delinquency, the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee of the Community College of Allegheny County, the
Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges Commission, and others.
Justice Wecht was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Pittsburgh’s
Squirrel Hill section, and graduated from Shady Side Academy in 1980. Justice Wecht and his wife Valerie were married at
Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Congregation, on whose Board of Trustees he served. Justice Wecht and his wife continue to live in
Allegheny County, where they raised four children, all of whom are now adults.
