Shaffer & Engle managing partner announces candidacy for Dauphin County Judge

Ioannis Pashakis//February 1, 2021

Jeffrey Engle, managing partner for Harrisburg-based law firm, Shaffer & Engle, announced his candidacy for judge on the Dauphin County Court on Saturday.

The seat is currently open following the retirement of Judge Jeanine Turgeon.

Engle, a municipal lawyer for large school districts, local governments and Dauphin County for over 20 years, founded his private practice with partner Allen Shaffer in 1999 in Millersburg. The duo relocated their central location to Harrisburg in 2012.

The Republican attorney will run on both the Republican and Democratic tickets in the seat’s primary and again in the fall of 2021.

Engle has support in the Dauphin County Republican Committee, where he was endorsed by an 80% vote.

In the press release announcing his candidacy, the area attorney said that he would “bring a well-balanced background to the Bench as a former prosecutor, defense attorney and civil attorney.”

Engle joins the race alongside defense attorney Bryan McQuilan of Kelly, Parker & Cohen in Lower Paxton Township. McQuilan will also appear on both ballots.

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