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Donald J. Martin, Chair, House of Delegates

Donald J. Martin, a sole practitioner in Norristown, is the chair of the PBA House of Delegates.

A member of the PBA House of Delegates since 2001, Martin is a member of the PBA Solo and Small Firm Practice Section, of which he served as chair from 2002 to 2004. He is chair of the PBA Bylaws Committee, immediate past chair of the PBA Senior Lawyers Committee and a member of the PBA GLBT Rights Committee. He has served on the PBA Nominating and Planning committees and the PBA Lawyer Advertising and Health Care Law task forces. He is a life fellow of the PBF and is a frequent lecturer and course organizer for the PBI.

Martin is active in the Montgomery Bar Association, serving as its president in 2012 and on its board of directors. He also chaired the MBA Lawyer Referral/Legal Access Committee and served on the editorial board of the Montgomery County Law Reporter. He was a director, officer and trustee of the Montgomery Bar Foundation. He also is a member of the Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association.

Martin is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago Law School. He has served the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas as its law clerk for asbestos litigation since 1981, as law clerk to all Montgomery County senior judges since 1998 and has continued those duties and assumed others as an appointed judicial officer for complex litigation beginning in 2002.