March 14, 2022

Related Professionals: Kenneth Horoho, Jr.

Pittsburgh – Kenneth J. Horoho, Jr., a resident of Mt. Lebanon, has been appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to its Committee on Domestic Relations Procedural Rules to advise and assist the court on matters related to the practice of family law in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Horoho’s three-year term on the committee begins April 1, 2022.

The Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee advises the Supreme Court on matters related to the procedural rules governing actions for divorce, support, custody, paternity, and protection from abuse. The primary goal of the committee is to simplify family law practice by recommending new rules or amendments to existing procedural rules relating to family law matters. The committee reviews legislation and monitors court decisions to ensure that the rules conform to developments in the law and into the realities of the family law practice.

The committee strives to promote statewide uniformity of practice, to streamline procedures, and to encourage the prompt disposition of family law matters.

This latest appointment is yet another leadership assignment for Mr. Horoho in state, local, and national bar association organizations. In addition to serving as President of the 29,000-member Pennsylvania Bar Association in 2006, he has been elected and appointed to numerous PBA committees, task forces and special projects throughout his distinguished career. Mr. Horoho also served for 12 years on the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Board of Governors and was Chairperson of its Family Law and Young Lawyer Sections.

In 2009, he was appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille to the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice; a special panel created by Governor Edward Rendell and the Pennsylvania General Assembly to investigate the causes of one of the most extraordinary cases of judicial corruption in state history.

Mr. Horoho has been a member of the Board of Trustees at Saint Francis University since 2010. He is also a member of the Duquesne University School of Law Dean’s Advisory Board.  Additionally, he was the Chairperson of the Pittsburgh YMCA Scholar Athlete Banquet for over twenty years. Horoho is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Downtown YMCA and served as its President from 1987-1989. In 2008, he was selected as an honoree of the Irish American Legal 100.

In addition, Mr. Horoho served 13 years as an adjunct professor on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he taught Advanced Family Law Trial Advocacy. He is a frequent lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the PBA and the ACBA on topics of divorce, support, equitable distribution and custody.

During the past three decades, he has been involved in some of the most complex equitable distribution, divorce, and custody cases in Western Pennsylvania. He was recognized by his peers for his divorce and family law practice by being selected by Woodward-White to their 25th Anniversary Edition of The Best Lawyers In America and has been in The Best Lawyers In America since 2007, as well as being named a Pennsylvania SuperLawyer since 2004.

Mr. Horoho, who received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Saint Francis University and his Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University School of Law.