Candidate for
State Senator; Pennsylvania State Senate; District 15; Democratic Party

Rob Teplitz has spent his career fighting for families throughout our Commonwealth, especially to protect their hard-earned tax dollars and make government programs work the way they're supposed to. He is eager to use his experience and skills to represent Dauphin and York counties in the Senate of Pennsylvania (15th District). If given the privilege of serving as your next State Senator, Rob will spend every day focused on creating jobs, strengthening public education, keeping taxes as low as possible, and ending politics as usual in Harrisburg.

Currently, Rob serves as both the Chief Counsel and the Director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General. He serves as the top legal and policy advisor to Auditor General Jack Wagner, having been appointed to those positions on Wagner's first day of office in January 2005. Rob directly supervises the department's lawyers, special investigators, and policy analysts, in addition to assisting Auditor General Wagner and other members of the department's senior staff with the daily management and operation of an independently-elected statewide executive agency with 600 employees across the state and a $45 million annual budget.

In addition, Rob teaches law and history classes as an Adjunct Professor at Central Penn College in Summerdale. He has also taught at the Harrisburg campus of Widener University School of Law.

Previously, Rob served as Wagner's Executive Assistant and Counsel in the State Senate; as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff and as Deputy Chief Counsel under then-Auditor General (now U.S. Senator) Robert P. Casey, Jr.; and as Policy Director for the Casey/Wagner ticket during the 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Before entering public service, Rob was a litigator with the Harrisburg law firm of McNees, Wallace and Nurick LLC. He performed all aspects of the litigation process in state, federal, and arbitration proceedings, focusing on the resolution of business disputes.

Rob received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, with a concentration in Public Law, from Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, where he served as Senior Note Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, with a major in Government, from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Rob's other academic honors include election as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, designation as a Charles A. Dana Scholar, the Arthur King Kunkel Prize in Government, and the American Jurisprudence Award. Rob was also honored as one of fifty lawyers under forty years old "on the fast track" by The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly, and as a member of the Harrisburg Multiple Sclerosis Society's Leadership Class.

A graduate of Central Dauphin High School in Harrisburg and lifelong resident of Central Pennsylvania, Rob has always been an active member of the community. His extensive involvement includes service on the boards of directors and various committees of organizations such as the Dauphin County Bar Association, the American Cancer Society, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg.

Rob, age 41, lives in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, with his wife Randi - herself a lawyer, professor, and long-time advocate for victims of domestic violence - and their two sons.