Hon. Kevin M.  Dougherty Administrative Judge Court of Common Pleas, Family Court Division, Philadelphia County Judge Dougherty is supervising judge of the Philadelphia Family Court Juvenile Division, a position to which he was appointed in 2003. In 2002, he was elected judge of Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. In 2001, he had been appointed as a judge of that court. In 1999, he was admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before that, he served as a special master in the Philadelphia Family Court Truancy Program (1998-2000). He was a partner in private practice from 1995-2001. From 1990 to 1995, he was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia County, and from 1989 to 1990, he was an associate in private practice after being admitted to the bar of the Courts of the Commonwealth. Judge Dougherty was a member of the Philadelphia Board of Judges of Committee - Glen Mills, Sleighton Farms, Youth Study Center, in 2003. He was a member of the Gender Bias Implementation Committee in 2003. Also in that year, he was appointed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to serve on the Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee. In 2003, he was appointed by Governor Edward G. Rendell to the Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission and was reappointed to the commission by Governor Rendell in 2004. Also in 2004, Judge Dougherty was appointed by Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street as a member of the Children’s Commission of Distinguished Leaders in Philadelphia. Judge Dougherty earned his bachelor’s degree from Temple University (1985) and his Juris Doctorate from Antioch School of Law.