Jackie Atherton Bernard

Judge for the Blair County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania.

Overseeing Luigi Mangione’s case in Altoona.

Jackie Bernard’s background is as a prosecutor. She was a prosecutor in the Blair County district attorney’s office for over twenty years.

Judge Bernard graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a concentration in business law in 1990. She earned a juris doctorate from Duquesne University School of Law in 1993 and was admitted to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania in 1994.

She lives in the Blair County area with her husband and children.