[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 4, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


IN RECOGNITION OF THE HONORABLE MARTIN KANE, THE WILKES-BARRE FRIENDLY 
              SONS OF ST. PATRICK MAN OF THE YEAR FOR 2015

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                          HON. MATT CARTWRIGHT

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 4, 2015

  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the Honorable 
Martin Kane, Magisterial District Judge in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 
Judge Kane has been named the 2015 Man of the Year by the Greater 
Wilkes-Barre Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. He will receive this award 
at the Friendly Sons' annual banquet on March 13, 2015. Judge Kane has 
honorably served Luzerne County for 30 years.
  Judge Kane is an Air Force veteran who served tours of duty in 
Vietnam and Thailand. He graduated from St. Mary's High School, Texas 
Christian University, and Wilson College, and is certified as a 
district judge. He has been married to his wife Kathryn for 40 years.
  Elected in 1985, Judge Kane has presided over more than 300,000 cases 
in his career. Many of those cases were high-profile homicide and drug 
cases presented by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, 
Pennsylvania State Police, and the Wilkes-Barre Police Department.
  Kane was appointed by Pennsylvania Chief Justices Ronald Castille and 
Steven Zappala to serve on the Legislative Committee, the Grievance and 
Bylaws Committee, and the Minor Rules Committee Intergovernmental Task 
Force of the Pennsylvania District Courts. Judge Kane is also special 
liaison to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and special liaison to 
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for the District Judges of Pennsylvania. 
He previously served as the president of the District Judges 
Association of Pennsylvania.
  Additionally, Judge Kane has served the Greater Wilkes-Barre Friendly 
Sons of St. Patrick as treasurer. He is also an active member of many 
community organizations, including the N.E. Slovak Club, the Triangle 
Club, the Wilkes-Barre Eagles Club, the American Legion, AMVETS, the 
Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Polish American Vets, the Knights of 
Columbus, and the Catholic War Vets. And Judge Kane serves as an 
officer of the Wyoming Valley Crime Clinic. This is quite a list.
  It is a distinct privilege to honor Judge Kane on receiving the 
Greater Wilkes-Barre Friendly Sons Man of the Year Award, and I commend 
him on his lifetime of public and community service.

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