THE HONORABLE JOSEPH H. KLEINFELTER, Senior Judge. Elected to bench November 1991. Retained November 2001. President Judge February 2000-February 2005. Retired December 2009; assumed Senior Judge status January 2010.

Born March 3, 1939, in Harrisburg, PA. Graduate of William Penn High School, Gettysburg College, Dickinson School of Law. Law Clerk to the Hon. G. Thomas Miller and Homer L. Kreider of the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas; full time prosecutor for 16 years in the York and Dauphin County District Attorney's Offices; current adjunct professor of law, Dickinson School of Law. Army veteran; current member of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. First person to be elected Dauphin County President Judge.