Judge Gene Strassburger graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School. After clerking for 2 years for Justice Henry X. O’Brien on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, he was associated with the law firm of Strassburger & McKenna and served in the City of Pittsburgh Law Department. His most notable achievement in the Law Department was arguing and winning in the United States Supreme Court the Pittsburgh Press Want-Ad Discrimination case. That case resulted in the elimination of gender-segregated want-ads. Judge Strassburger was appointed to the bench in 1978, elected with the nominations of both parties in 1979, and retained in 1989, 1999 and 2009. He served in the Family Division for fifteen (15) years, the last four (4) as Administrative Judge. From 1994 through 2010, he served in the Civil Division. He was the Calendar Control Judge from September, 1999 through 2010 and was Administrative Judge of the Civil Division from 2008 through 2010. Judge Strassburger’s wife is a sociology professor. They have three children and two grandchildren.
