Doris A. Smith-Ribner is a former judge of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.

She attended the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

 and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law

University of Pittsburgh School of Law

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. She was in private law practice in Allegheny County with her law partner, Byrd R. Brown. She served as solicitor for the Allegheny County Controller from 1980 to 1984. She served as a judge of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas

Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas

The Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas are the trial courts of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania .The Courts of Common Pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state....

 on an interim basis from 1984 to 1985. She was first elected to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in 1987 and was re-elected in 1997 and 2007. She retired from the court in 2009.

She was a candidate in the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor election, 2010

Pennsylvania lieutenant governor election, 2010

The Pennsylvania lieutenant gubernatorial election of 2010 was held on November 2, 2010. The winning candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor will serve a four-year term from 2011 to 2015. In Pennsylvania, the Lieutenant Governor is elected on the same ticket as the Governor, so the only...

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She and her husband, former Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Paul Ribner, have one daughter.