As the president judge of Pennsylvania’s third-largest county trial court ends his term as its leader this week, Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard J. Hodgson said that some of the biggest milestones of his tenure were making civil cases more court-driven, the creation of more specialty courts aiming at addressing criminal defendants’ underlying problems and successfully advocating for an expansion of the county jail.
Hodgson’s successor, Montgomery Common Pleas Court Judge William J. Furber Jr., is scheduled to be sworn in Friday.
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