John Rafferty, Former State Senator, Reappointed To Disciplinary Board of PA Supreme Court

HARRIBSURG — A former state senator who represented portions of Montgomery County has been reappointed to serve on a statewide judicial disciplinary board.

John C. Rafferty, Jr., who formerly represented the 44th Senatorial District, was recently reappointed as a member of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Rafferty, who currently serves of counsel for the Law Office of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxell & Lupin, had first been appointed to serve on the board back in February 2019. His reappointment will mean he'll serve a term that expires in April 2025.

Disciplinary Board members include 10 lawyers and two non-lawyers. The unpaid members review conduct and assure compliance by attorneys licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania.

Rafferty — who served as a Methacton School Board member in the early 1980s and was also previously an elected member of the Lower Providence Township Board of Supervisors — was a Republican state senator from 2003 to 2019. Following his time in the senate, Rafferty was the Republican candidate for state attorney general, but he ultimately lost to Democrat Josh Shapiro, the current attorney general who is also a Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate.

Rafferty is also a licensed attorney who has worked, and continues to work, in private practice, according to a bio provided by the Disciplinary Board.

The bio states that Rafferty has focused on various practice areas of law, such as education, real estate, zoning, business and estate law. He also formerly served as Pennsylvania deputy attorney general in the criminal law division where he investigated and prosecuted Medicaid fraud cases.

During his time in the Pennsylvania Senate, Rafferty served as chairman of the Transportation Committee and vice chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Rafferty was also previously appointed to serve on the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.