{"80":{"first":"Jackie","last":"Bernard"},"81":"","82":"jathertonbernard@gmail.com","83":"814-505-3237","84":{"first":"Wade","last":"Kagarise"},"85":"1997","86":"Wade Kagarise has spent the past thirty years in public service.  While a high school student he joined the United States Army Reserves as an infantryman.  This service continued during his first year of law school.  He earned a bachelor degree in Criminology and went on to graduate from Widener University School of Law in December 1997.\r\n\r\nAfter earning his law degree, he spent fifteen and a half years as a prosecutor in the Blair County District Attorney\u2019s Office.  In 2006, he was promoted to the position of Chief Deputy District Attorney, one of two supervisory positions in that office.  He prosecuted every type of case including numerous homicide cases.  He was also appointed a Special Assistant Deputy Attorney General by the Attorney General of Pennsylvania to prosecute a major drug distribution case.  During his tenure as a prosecutor, he also operated a private litigation practice representing hundreds of clients in family, civil, and labor law matters.\r\n\r\nIn 2013, Wade was elected to the Court of Common Pleas of Blair County.  He began his service in 2014 and presides over a busy docket of criminal, civil, and family law matters.  He has taken on many leadership roles including leading an effort to improve mental health services for the criminal justice system and leading the dependency court.  In 2017, Judge Kagarise was the Republican nominee for a position on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.\r\n\r\nIn addition to his daily work as a lawyer and Judge, Wade has been requested to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth and his colleagues in many important capacities.  Prior to becoming a Judge, Wade was appointed by United States Senator Patrick Toomey to serve on a nominating panel for federal district court judges in western Pennsylvania.  As a Judge, both Governor Corbett and Governor Wolf appointed Wade to serve on the State Council for Interstate Juvenile Supervision.  The president of the Conference of State Trial Judges appointed Judge Kagarise to serve on the conferences legislative and executive committees.  Recently, the Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has appointed Judge Kagarise to serve on the Adult Parole and Probation Advisory Committee which is charged with making important decision on probation matters in the Commonwealth.\r\n\r\nWade has also served his community in numerous ways over his life including being a member of Rotary for over twenty years where he has been past president of his local club.  Wade has also been an adjunct professor in the criminal justice\/ sociology program at Saint Francis University for over a decade.\r\n"}