[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 47 (Friday, March 17, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E342]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 IN RECOGNITION OF JOSEPH D. BURKE, RECIPIENT OF THE GREATER PITTSTON 
              FRIENDLY SONS OF SAINT PATRICK SWINGLE AWARD

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                          HON. MATT CARTWRIGHT

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 17, 2017

  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Joseph D. Burke, 
Esq. Today, Mr. Burke will receive the Swingle Award from the Greater 
Pittston Friendly Sons of St. Patrick during their 103rd annual 
banquet.
  Joe is a partner at Burke Vullo Reilly Roberts. He has practiced law 
for thirty-two years focusing on commercial law and civil litigation. 
Joe is admitted to practice before the United States and Pennsylvania 
Supreme Courts, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United 
States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He has 
been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer four times by Thomson Reuters. 
He has been recognized by the Martindale Hubbel Bar Register of 
Preeminent Lawyers for the past seventeen years. He is a Fellow of the 
American and Pennsylvania Bar Foundations, as well as the Litigation 
Counsel of America. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar 
Association's Professionalism Committee.
  An alumnus of Scranton Preparatory School and Lehigh University, Joe 
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Government. 
He received his Juris Doctorate from Delaware Law School of Widener 
University. While at Widener he was a member of the law review, The 
Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, and received the 1982 Moot Court 
Competition Best Advocate Award.
  Joe has a long record of service to the community throughout his 
professional career. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of 
the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth. He is the former President of 
the Greater Pittston Chamber of Commerce. He is a past member of the 
Board of Trustees of the Scranton Preparatory School and Chair of its 
Ignatian Identity and Mission Committee. He also served as Co-Chair of 
the North Penn Legal Services Campaign and for eight years as Lawyers 
Division Chair of the United Way of Wyoming Valley.
  He and his wife Kathleen have been blessed with three children, 
Elizabeth Davis (Christian), Joseph Jr., and Michael, and two 
grandchildren, Burke Christian Davis and Whitney Elizabeth Davis. Joe 
and Kathleen actively support the work of the Children's Hospital of 
Philadelphia Foundation, Coaches vs. Cancer, Endure for the Cure, the 
Catherine McAuley Center, St. Joseph's Center, and Marley's Mission.
  It is an honor to recognize Joseph D. Burke, Esq. as the Greater 
Pittston Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Swingle Award recipient. He is 
well deserving of praise for his service to Northeastern Pennsylvania.

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