Former Superior Court Judge Maureen Lally-Green a Nominee for State Board of Education

On Monday, the Pennsylvania Senate confirmed Hon. Maureen Lally-Green, a former state Superior Court Judge, as one of Gov. Tom Corbett’s nominees to the state Board of Education.

A Republican from Cranberry, Lally-Green retired from the bench in 2009 to become director of the Office for Church Relations at the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.

She ran unsuccessfully for state Supreme Court in 2007.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary education and mathematics from Duquesne University in 1971 and received her Juris Doctorate from Duquesne’s School of Law in 1974. She was inducted into the school's Century Club in 2010, according to Duquesne’s Alumni Relations department. She also has served as a professor at the university.

She also has held positions on the governing boards of Saint Vincent Seminary, Saint Francis University, the Saint Thomas More Society, the Ireland Institute of Pittsburgh, UPMC Mercy Hospital, the Epilepsy Foundation and Auberle, according to the Alumni Relations department.