Seip Seeks Seat on Schuylkill County District Court 21-03-04

Former State Representative Tim Seip announced recently he is running for the office of District Judge for Magisterial Court 21-03-04, located in Tremont.

“During the four years I served in the state House of Representatives, it was an honor and a privilege to represent the people of Schuylkill and Berks counties,” Seip says. “I believe my education and the professional positions I have held prepare me to carry out the duties of a magisterial district judge and to serve Schuylkill Countians once again.”

Seip, 55, has completed the Pennsylvania Minor Judiciary Education Board course for non-attorneys, and has been certified to take the bench upon being elected. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Mansfield University, as well as a master’s degree from Marywood University.

District court judge duties include: conducting summary court trials, ruling on traffic citations, issuing search warrants, conducting preliminary arraignments, setting bail, issuing emergency protection-from-abuse orders, handling school truancy cases, hearing landlord tenant complaints, and other civil actions.

Seip currently is working in education. Since 2011, he has served as a full-time faculty member and a director of field education at Kutztown University. He also is state Department of Education-certified as a substitute teacher and has taught in the Pine Grove Area and Tri-Valley school districts.

Seip also is certified in the Pennsylvania Student Assistance Program, was the lead therapist for a program that worked with families through Children and Youth Services to make homes safe, provided court testimony, and oversaw anger-management and parenting groups.

As the county Child and Adolescent Service System Program coordinator, he chaired the team that administered outreach efforts to help children, adolescents, and their families access mental health services, as well as helped those with juvenile-justice issues, drug and alcohol problems, and those with intellectual disabilities. He coordinated programming through the county Intermediate Unit, local school districts, and provider networks.

Seip once worked in a family business that provided apartment rentals and sometimes became involved with landlord tenant complaints. He also was employed at the State Correctional Institution at Frackville, working with the most challenging members of the inmate population. He also has retail theft surveillance and loss prevention experience, filing civil actions in shoplifting cases.

Seip is a board member and past president of Avenues Inc. for people with disabilities, a past youth basketball coach, and former treasurer of the then Mount Carbon Fire Company.

“My career has helped me to more fully understand the problems of society by working to improve and safeguard the lives of Pennsylvanians through front-line engagement, as well as making the law in the House chamber of the state Capitol,” Seip noted. “I believe that level of involvement – as well as my education – has greatly prepared me to decide the criminal matters and business disputes that come before a Magisterial District Judge,” Seip says in a campaign announcement.

Seip, a lifelong Schuylkill County resident, resides in Washington Township, Schuylkill County, with his wife of 31 years, Starr, and daughter, Elisa.

^{Published from a press release}

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