York Cnty. C.P. Local Rules of Judicial Administration Rule 702

(A) Assignment of judicial duties:

(1) Judicial assignments shall become effective each year on January 2, or

at such time preceding that date as is necessary to ensure a smooth transition of

judicial duties.

(2) The President Judge or the President Judge’s designee shall assign

judicial duties annually prior to July 1 of the year preceding the year that judicial

assignments shall become effective.

(3) Judicial assignments shall be made with due regard for the following:

(a) The need for proper allocation of judicial resources to cover all

necessary judicial duties;

(b) The experience of a judge with a particular judicial assignment. A

judge shall serve a minimum of two (2) years in a particular judicial assignment;

(c) Due deference to a judge’s seniority;

(d) The desirability of having periodic changes of judicial assignments;

(e) The desirability of maintaining continuity of judicial experience

within various areas of judicial duties; and

(f) The desires of individual judges.

(B) Procedure for periodic rotation of judicial assignments:

(1) Prior to July 1 of the year preceding the year that judicial assignments

become effective, rotation of various judicial duties and assignments among the judges

shall take place as follows:

(a) Each judge shall have the ability to designate whether he or she

wishes to keep that judge’s current assignments or switch assignments to another

judicial position.

(b) The designation shall be made first by the most senior judge, and

then by each judge in succession, according to seniority.

(c) In the event there is more than one judicial position with

substantially similar judicial assignments, positions with judges occupying a judicial

position the longest shall be filled first, and thereafter, in inverse order of seniority.

(2) Should a judge elect to stay in his or her current assignment area, that

judge will be subject to being displaced from those assignments by a judge making a

subsequent designation of assignments.

(a) Once a judge has made a designation of assignments different than

those currently held by that judge, that judge is not subject to being displaced from

those assignments so designated.

(b) A judge who has been displaced from his or her assignments by a

judge making a subsequent designation of assignments shall take over the assignments

of the judge who displaced him or her, and shall be subject to further displacement by a

judge making a subsequent designation of assignments.

(3) A judge may not designate a judicial assignment substantially similar to

an assignment which that judge previously held unless no other judge has designated

that judicial assignment.

(4) No more than 50% of the judges in the following assignments shall be

displaced in any one year: criminal court; juvenile dependencies; juvenile delinquencies;

and child support.

(5) Regardless of the assignments noted above, a judge who has been

assigned to a complex matter, including PCRA matters, appeals of complex civil

matters, and complex juvenile matters, shall retain assignment to that matter until the

conclusion of all proceedings associated with that matter

(C) The above scheme for rotation of assignments is subject to modification or

change by the President Judge or the President Judge’s designee to provide

appropriate judicial resources for judicial assignments, to fill vacancies in the event of

the disability of a judge to perform judicial functions, or for other necessary reasons.