Member

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1995 Representative 20 Democrat
1996 Representative 20 Democrat
1997 Representative 20 Democrat
1998 Representative 20 Democrat
1999 Representative 20 Democrat
2000 Representative 20 Democrat
2001 Representative 20 Democrat
2002 Representative 20 Democrat
2003 Representative 20 Democrat
2004 Representative 20 Democrat
2005 Representative 20 Democrat
2006 Representative 20 Democrat
2007 Representative 20 Democrat
2008 Representative 20 Democrat
2009 Representative 20 Democrat
2010 Representative 20 Democrat
Counties Allegheny

Biography

02/24/1953 -


WALKO, Donald R., a Representative from Allegheny County; born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., February 24, 1953; B.S., accounting, The Pennsylvania State University, 1975; J.D., Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law), 1978; attorney; writer, Northside Chronicle; chair, Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority; secretary and treasurer, Allegheny County Democratic Delegation; chair, 26th Ward Democratic Committee; president, Perry Hilltop Citizens Council; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1994; reelected to 7 consecutive terms thereafter; appointed, Select Committee for Open-Heart Surgery (1996); appointed, Speaker's Commission on Legislative Reform (2007); resigned from the House, January 3, 2010; elected, judge, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County (2010-2020).
 
 
 

Archival Collections


Papers of Donald R. Walko, 1995-2010, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives, Harrisburg.


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