Bruce Castor

Castor is famous for declining to prosecute the disgraced entertainer Bill Cosby while he was the district attorney in Montgomery County, Pa., in 2005. He also served briefly as Pennsylvania’s acting attorney general. Bruce L. Castor, Jr. worked in various prosecutors’ offices from 1981 to 1985 beginning as an intern and ultimately becoming the twice-elected District Attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania from 2000 to 2008. Mr. Castor later was twice-elected Commissioner of Montgomery County and assumed that office on January 7, 2008 concentrating on Public Safety and related matters building on his career in law enforcement. Mr. Castor retired from Montgomery County on January 4, 2016 after 30 years of service. Mr. Castor next became Solicitor General and acting Attorney General of Pennsylvania during a time of great turmoil in that office. Mr. Castor has practiced civil litigation for more than 10 years in addition to his three decades in law enforcement. Bruce focuses his practice on general civil litigation (especially for victims of crime), trial strategy and tactics, and conducting discreet internal investigations for corporate clients. He is a trial lawyer. Bruce formally acted as Solicitor to the Perkiomen Valley School District from 2015 to 2018. During Mr. Castor’s law enforcement career, he prosecuted primarily homicide cases. In 1995, he received the Trial Advocacy Award from the National Association of Government Attorneys for his work investigating and prosecuting homicides. In addition to Pennsylvania, Mr. Castor is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court, The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the Federal District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western (pending) Districts of Pennsylvania. Mr. Castor acquired his undergraduate degree from Lafayette College, and his law degree from Washington and Lee University. He has received advanced education from the National College of District Attorneys and at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia in 1993. Mr. Castor is a life long resident of Montgomery County who grew up in Abington and now lives in Lederach, Lower Salford Township with his wife, Elizabeth. The couple have been married since 1989 and are proud of their two grown children, Bruce, III (an assistant district attorney based in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County), and Alexandra (a member of the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts’ Office in Norristown). Bruce joined his long-time friend, former Lower Merion Township Commissioner and senatorial candidate Lance Rogers, in the practice of law in 2013, forming their partnership after Bruce had practiced law as a shareholder and director of the Blue Bell-based litigation firm of Elliott, Greenleaf from 2008 until 2013, a firm with which he maintains close ties. Bruce is a Master Mason, a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite mason, a Knight Templar, and a Shriner.