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Kevin Steele

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A Proven Leader Delivering Results for Montgomery County

Kevin R. Steele has served as Montgomery County's District Attorney since 2016 and has spent more than 30 years as a prosecutor. He is an award-winning attorney, a longtime professor, a community leader, and a husband and father of three.

Prosecutor 

As District Attorney, Steele is Montgomery County's chief law enforcement officer, leading an office of approximately 155 prosecutors, detectives, and staff who work alongside all 50 of the county's police departments. He continues to personally try some of the office's most serious cases, with a focus on justice for victims and safety for the people who live and work in Montgomery County.

  • Sworn in as Deputy District Attorney in Dauphin County in 1992; joined the Montgomery County DA's Office in 1995 as an Assistant District Attorney, later serving as Captain of the Narcotics Unit and Chief of the Trials Division

  • Served as Montgomery County's First Assistant District Attorney from 2008 until his election as District Attorney in 2016

  • Elected District Attorney in 2016; leads an office handling thousands of prosecutions annually

  • Maintains a personal caseload focused on homicides, violent crime, sex crimes, and crimes against children and the elderly

  • Oversees the county's Narcotics Enforcement Team and works with over 400 officers sworn as Special County Detectives on the Drug Task Force

  • Supervises investigations involving consensual and non-consensual wiretaps in narcotics and violent crime cases

  • Associate member of the Police Chiefs' Association since 2008, working with police chiefs on case law updates and officer training

  • Successfully prosecuted first-degree murder cases in Dauphin and Adams Counties, including a 2013 capital case in Gettysburg for the murder of a law enforcement officer

  • Received the Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy of Capital Cases (2012–2013), presented in Washington, D.C.

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Professor

For nearly two decades, Steele has trained the next generation of prosecutors and police officers across Pennsylvania.

  • Adjunct Professor at Cabrini College since 2004; has also taught at Rosemont College, covering Criminal Law, Drug Law, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence

  • Teaches Constitutional Law at the police academy

  • Instructs Trial Advocacy and Wiretap/Electronic Surveillance courses for the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association; serves on its Education and Training Committee and Best Practices Committee

  • Recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award, Pennsylvania District Attorney's Institute

  • Appointed in 2014 to the leadership team of the Montgomery County Drug Overdose Task Force

Leadership

  • Works with the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, the National District Attorneys Association, and the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys on the administration of justice

  • Partners with the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania on programs to support prosecutors

  • Helped develop a leadership training program for Pennsylvania prosecutors

  • Serves on the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Elder Abuse Medical Advisory Board

  • Recipient of the Philadelphia 76ers' Heroes Among Us award (2013) for his work with Big Brothers Big Sisters

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Community

  • Board of directors of his local fire department since 1997; elected Vice President annually since 2002

  • President of his local civic association, organizing the neighborhood's 4th of July parade and festivities

  • Vice President of the Penn State Alumni Association; serves on the Penn State Dickinson School of Law Alumni Society Board and as President of the Graduate School Alumni Society

Husband & Father

  • Kevin and his wife, Tracy, are raising their three children in Lower Merion Township. He coaches his children's youth baseball, softball, and basketball teams.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, The George Washington University. Law degree, The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. Master of Laws in Trial Advocacy, Temple University.

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A Story I'll Never Forget

When my family was going through one of the hardest moments of our lives, Kevin drove 400 miles round trip to be there for us, at a funeral in a small town most people would never think twice about. He didn't tell me he was coming. He just showed up, sat with my family, and joined us for lunch afterward at my sister's house. That's who Kevin Steele is. Not the person you see in headlines, but the person who shows up when it matters most, without being asked and without wanting anything in return. That's why I'm proud to serve as Treasurer for his campaign, and why I know Montgomery County can trust him with this office again.

 

— Anne Umbrecht, Campaign Treasurer

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