The two Democratic candidates seeking spots on the Pennsylvania Superior Court come from very different legal backgrounds and different regions of the state, but both focused on their experience during a candidate forum Tuesday hosted by Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts.

The hour-long event, which took place at the Central Free Library of Philadelphia, featured candidates Amanda Green-Hawkins, who is associate counsel to the United Steelworkers union, and Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel McCaffery. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorney Karl Myers moderated the event, posing numerous questions to each candidate about their background, judicial philosophy and process.

Green-Hawkins and McCaffery are running against Megan McCarthy King, a Chester County deputy district attorney, and Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas Judge Christylee Peck, who are both Republicans. Although all four had been scheduled to attend the event, both King and Peck canceled. Peck and King, however, previously participated in a similar forum hosted by Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts in Harrisburg earlier this month, which neither McCaffery nor Green-Hawkins attended.

View the Harrisburg forum with Megan McCarthy King and Christylee Peck here.

Green-Hawkins, who hails from Pittsburgh and got her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, focused her opening statements on her background advocating on behalf of "working families and working people."