Philadelphia Common Pleas Court President Judge Pamela Pryor Dembe was certainly on the right track: The office of clerk of quarter sessions has to go.
The clerk of quarter sessions became an elective position in 1838, and, unlike the office of prothonotary, the clerk of quarter sessions remained an elective position under the Constitution of 1874. Although the Quarter Sessions Court effectively ended when its functions became part of the Court of Common Pleas in 1968, the office of the clerk of quarter sessions remained as an independent elected office. Where the prothonotary serves many of the civil clerk functions of the Trial Division, the clerk of quarter sessions’ responsibilities relate to the criminal sides of the Municipal Court and the Trial and Family divisions of the Court of Common Pleas.
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