Judge Daniel R. Sulman has served as a judge in the Family Division of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas from July of 2016 to January of 2018 and from December of 2019 through the present following appointments to the bench by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and subsequent election to a ten-year term in November of 2021. Judge Sulman is a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, a graduate of Philadelphia public schools and a magna cum laude graduate of Temple University, where he earned a B.A. in political science. As an undergraduate, he earned a University Honors Program Certificate and, among other honors, he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Thereafter, he earned a J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he participated in the Integrated Trial Advocacy Program. Following graduation from law school in the year 2000, he was admitted to the practice of law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edward R. Summers in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. From December of 2003 to July of 2016, he served as a full-time Support Hearing Officer in the Domestic Relations Branch of Philadelphia Family Court. From January of 2018 to February of 2019, he served as a Custody Hearing Officer, where he developed and implemented new procedures to effect the prompt resolution of custody relocation cases. In May of 2019, he was elected as a board member of the Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes, an independent seven-member board that adjudicates residential and commercial property tax assessment appeals, where he served until returning to the judiciary in December of 2019. Judge Sulman is a member of the Temple University Political Science Advisory Board. He is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association and a former chair of the Family Law Section’s Support and Alimony Committee. He has served as a faculty member at numerous continuing legal education courses related to family law offered by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Judge Sulman is a charter member and executive committee member of the Nicholas A. Cipriani American Inn of Court, where he previously served four years as chapter secretary. Judge Sulman says: “I am a 1993 graduate of NEHS (Class of 152) and I participated in junior varsity basketball, as well as junior varsity and varsity football at NEHS.  I am married to Shelby, a school teacher, who is also a NEHS school graduate (1995, class of 154).  We have a son in 7th  grade and a daughter in 10th  grade.  My hobbies include being a longtime fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, Sixers, and Phillies.”