Fran Chardo's Teaching Experience

Teaching a subject helps a person learn more about it. I find that I get a great deal out of teaching and I hope my students learn a lot from me. Teaching makes me a better prosecutor and it has helped prepare me for the position of judge. A trial judge must have the ability to convey the law to jurors in an understandable way. Here is a summary of my teaching experience in addition to what I do everyday in the office.

  • Adjunct Professor, Widener University School of Law
    • Teach criminal law and advanced criminal procedure to law students
  • Instructor, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law
    • Serve as an instructor for law students in trial advocacy
  • Instructor, Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute
    • Taught classes to prosecutors throughout Pennsylvania
  • Faculty Member, National College of District Attorneys, Columbia, South Carolina (2004-2011)
    • Served as trial advocacy instructor for prosecutors throughout the country
  • Instructor, Public Safety Institute, Harrisburg Area Community College (1995-2004)
    • Instructed police academy cadets on criminal law and procedure
  • Instructor, Minor Judiciary Education Board Continuing Education Classes (1999-2000; 2015)
    • Taught magisterial district judges on developments in the criminal law
  • Recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award, Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute (2012)
  • In addition, Fran has presented lectures for the Pennsylvania State Trial Judges Association, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Dauphin County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania State Police Academy, the Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association, and the Pennsylvania State Police Special Emergency Response Team