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# Mary P. Murray

Superior Court of Pennsylvania · Superior Court Judge

## Profile

- Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- State: Pennsylvania
- Role: Superior Court Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### recording photography evidence presentation

Scope: statewide

For Pennsylvania Common Pleas proceedings, statewide Pa.R.J.A. 1910 prohibits courtroom broadcasting, recording, and photography unless an exception or judicial authorization applies; the rule also recognizes judge-authorized electronic or photographic means for evidence presentation.

Evidence excerpt: the use of electronic or photographic means for the presentation of evidence

[201 Pa. Code Chapter 19, Rule 1910, Broadcasting, Recording and Photography in the Courtroom](https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?d=&file=%2Fsecure%2Fpacode%2Fdata%2F201%2Fchapter19%2Fchap19toc.html)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://www.pacourts.us/courts/superior-court/superior-court-judges/judge-mary-p-murray)
- [Official roster](https://www.pacourts.us/courts/superior-court/superior-court-judges/judge-mary-p-murray)
- [Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania official judicial roster](https://www.pacourts.us/courts/superior-court/superior-court-judges/judge-mary-p-murray)
- [201 Pa. Code Chapter 19, Rule 1910, Broadcasting, Recording and Photography in the Courtroom](https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?d=&file=%2Fsecure%2Fpacode%2Fdata%2F201%2Fchapter19%2Fchap19toc.html)
- [Wikidata: Mary P. Murray](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124426096)

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## Biography

### Professional career

- Republican‐party judge on the Pennsylvania Superior Court, elected in 2017 and serving since January 2018 for a 10‐year term ending in 2027
- From 2004 to 2017, Murray held the role of a Magisterial District Judge for Coraopolis, Crescent, Moon, and Neville Townships in Allegheny County, hearing over 75,000 civil, criminal, traffic, and non‐traffic cases
- She also interned with Judge Joseph L. Cosetti, S.J., at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Murray is also on the Board of Governors of Amen Corner, serves as Presiding Justice for B.P.O.E. #1090, and is active in local business and religious communities

### Education

- B.S./B.A. in marketing (with a minor in psychology) from Duquesne University in 1992, then completed a joint MBA (1995) and J.D. (1996) at Duquesne University School of Law.

### Additional information

- She chaired the Minor Court Rules Committee (2012–2014) and held leadership roles in the Special Court Judges Associations.
- She has been licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and Florida, and admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Before that, she worked in private wills and estates practice, at law firms handling real estate, family, civil, and municipal law, and as a Beaver County law clerk for Judges Joseph S. Walko, Thomas C. Mannix, and James E. Rowley