Hon. Edward D. Reibman is a judge for the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. He was elected to the bench in November 1991.
During his judicial tenure, Reibman was elected to a five-year term as president judge in Lehigh County in 2015.
Prior to his election to the Court of Common Pleas, Reibman had worked as a sole practitioner at his own private practice in Allentown since 1975. In addition to managing his solo practice, he was a cooperating counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and special counsel to the Allentown and Hazleton City Councils.
He received an A.B. from Lafayette College in 1969. Reibman went on to complete a J.D. at Duke University School of Law in 1972.
After law school, Reibman began his legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Bryan Simpson with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1972 to 1973) before working as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division (Education Section) of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1972 to 1975).
His memberships included the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, the Lehigh County Bar Association, and the Northampton County Bar Association.
Reibman also held memberships with the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges Ethics Committee (former chair), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Continuing Judicial Education Board of Judges, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts’ Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation/Conciliation Committee (chair), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Ad Hoc Committee to Rewrite the Code of Judicial Conduct, and the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges’ Commonwealth Partners and Meet Your Judges Committees.
Reibman graduated from Easton Area High School. He is married and has two children. His wife is a certified nurse-midwife. He served in the United States Army Reserves from 1969 to 1975.
He is registered as a Democrat.