Biography

09/16/1943 - 03/08/2021

McVERRY, Terrence F., "Terry," a Representative from Allegheny County; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., September 16, 1943; B.A., Duquesne University, 1965; J.D., Duquesne University School of Law, 1968; served, United States Army Reserves (1968-1969); captain, Pennsylvania Air National Guard (1969-1974); attorney; Assistant District Attorney, Allegheny County (1969-1973); partner, Gondelman Baxter Mannsman; member, Commission to Study Pennsylvania’s Unified Judicial System; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1978; elected to serve 5 consecutive terms thereafter; appointed, Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (1979-1988); appointed, Select Committee to Investigate the Commonwealth's Response to Medicaid Fraud (1986); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1990); appointed, judge, family division, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County (1998-2001); solicitor, chief legal officer and director of the law department, Allegheny County (2001); appointed, judge, Federal Court, Western District of Pennsylvania (2002-2016); died, March 8, 2021 in Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Anne Cemetery, Castle Shannon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.