Don and Joanne are joined by PA Supreme Court candidate, Judge Paula Patrick and Senator Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania’s 33rd District.
Judge Paula A. Patrick is a native of North Carolina but moved to Philadelphia in 1993. She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina where she earned a B.A. degree in Political Science. She is also a graduate of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas. Shortly after graduating law school, Judge Patrick moved to Philadelphia where she established the Law Office of Paula A. Patrick, P.C. Her law firm was a general litigation practice working in the areas of criminal defense, personal injury, worker’s compensation, family law, and municipal bond finance. For almost ten (10) years, she worked tirelessly as an advocate for the people.
She was admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District for the Northern District of Maryland, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
In addition, Judge Patrick served in numerous community, professional and social organizations.
Former Advisory Board member for Schuylkill Women;
Former member of the Board of Trustees for the Chaplain of Four Chaplains
Pro bono attorney for the Senior Law Center (formerly Judicare) where she represented Philadelphia senior citizens in need of legal counsel.
Pro bono counsel for Philadelphia VIP (Volunteers for the Indigent) and
Pro bono counsel for Philadelphia KIDSCAP (Kids Custody Assistance Project) where she represented the less fortunate who needed legal counsel in civil and custody cases.
As an attorney, Judge Patrick also was a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of Philadelphia, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), the National Crime Victim’s Bar Association, and the National Bond Lawyers Association. She is also a graduate of and former faculty to the Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming.
Judge Patrick also served for two years as adjunct faculty of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at LaSalle University. While there, she taught undergraduate courses in criminal law and the court system. During her tenure as an attorney and college instructor, Judge Patrick received countless awards and honors from professional, civic and social groups.
In 2003, Judge Patrick was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In that election she was rated “Recommended” by the Philadelphia Bar Association and was endorsed by both the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer. Judge Patrick has also been rated “Recommended” by the Pennsylvania Bar Association for Superior Court. She currently presides in the Family Court Division. As a judge, she was former Treasure of the Clifford Scott green Chapter of the National Bar Association-Judicial Council and former District 3 Director of the national Association of Women Judges (NAWJ).
Patrick (Republican Party) is running for election for judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. She is on the ballot in the Republican primary on May 18, 2021.
Judge Patrick is married and has a one year old son, Josiah.
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Senator Doug Mastriano is a combat veteran and the son of a career US Navy man. He is an Eagle Scout and worked as a paperboy, janitor, security guard, short-order cook, pizza delivery person and dishwasher. Doug was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1986 and served on the Iron Curtain with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in West Germany. While serving along the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, he witnessed the end of the Cold War and thereafter deployed to Iraq for Operation Desert Storm (1991) to liberate Kuwait. His regiment led the attack against Saddam’s elite Republican Guard forces. Doug went on to serve in Washington, DC, the 3rd Infantry Division and US Army Europe. After 9/11, Mastriano was the lead planner for the operation to invade Iraq via Turkey. He served four years with NATO and deployed three times to Afghanistan. Mastriano was the director of NATO’s Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan, leading 80 people from 18 nations. On his own initiative, Doug led seven relief operations to help Afghan orphans. He completed his career as a Professor of the U.S. Army War College (PAWC), Carlisle, PA, and taught Strategic Studies at the Master Degree level to the next generation of senior leaders.
Mastriano is a Doctor of History (PhD) and has four master’s degrees: Strategy, Strategic Intelligence, Military Operations, and Airpower. He earned a BA from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania and was the alumnus of the year in 2009. He led the search to locate where America’s greatest WW I hero, Alvin York, received the Medal of Honor and led the construction of a three mile trail, with two monuments and nine markers in the Argonne Forest of France. He published 30 articles on strategy and historic topics and authored the book Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne which received four awards. His new book, Thunder in the Argonne is the first to tell the complete story of America’s largest battle, the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Campaign. Doug’s next book, Pershing’s Lieutenants, was just released and is an edited work that focuses on the leadership style of American officers in the First World War.
Mastriano has appeared on Tucker Carlson, C-Span, numerous national radio programs (John Batchelor Show, Eric Metaxas Show) and on Fox Business with Stuart Varney. He retired from the U.S. Army in November 2017 after 30 years of active duty as a Colonel. In 2018, he was a candidate for Pennsylvania’s 13th U.S. Congressional District, where he overwhelmingly won Franklin and Fulton Counties and placed 3rd (of 8 candidates) in Adams and Cumberland Counties.
Doug is married to Rebecca (Stewart), whose ancestors settled this region of Pennsylvania in 1732. Rebecca was a chaplain with Marketplace Ministries at Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe. Their son Josiah is a graduate of Liberty University, and an Eagle Scout, Canadian Chief Scout and recipient of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards.
Mastriano is an active member of his church and resides near Caledonia State Park, Pennsylvania.
Mastriano was elected to serve as the Senator for Pennsylvania’s 33rd District in May 2019, which includes all of Adams County, most of Franklin County and parts of Cumberland and York Counties. Mastriano has thirty years of experience building teams to get the job done. He has dedicated his life to fighting for freedom, defending our families and serving the people of this great land.