Fox announces bid for another term as DA
WAYNESBURG – Greene County District Attorney Marjorie Fox announced her intention Thursday to seek re-election to a fourth full term.
Fox, a Democrat, joined the district attorney’s office in 1989. Appointed to serve as first assistant, she continued in this capacity until 2001, when the court appointed her to complete the term of resigning District Attorney Glenn Toothman III.
She made successful bids for election in 2003, 2007 and 2011, and said she would consider it a “honor and a privilege to continue in the capacity of chief law enforcement officer of Greene County.”
Fox said, “I serve with dedication and integrity and free of political influence. I have worked hard to keep our homes, our highways and our children safe. I am proud to work with the many dedicated law enforcement, public safety professionals, community volunteers and concerned citizens who share my commitment to protect and serve the citizens of Greene County.”
Fox is a “Pitt / Penn Stater,” receiving a bachelor’s degree in public service from Pennsylvania State University and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She joined a small Pittsburgh law firm in 1982, but moved to Greene County to start a family in 1987.
She has prosecuted numerous cases at trial and on appeal before the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts and in federal habeas corpus proceedings in federal District Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
From 2007 to 2011, Fox represented Pennsylvania prosecutors on the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, an 11-member board that creates sentencing policy and recommends changes to the sentencing guidelines to the General Assembly.
She and her husband, Bob Niedbala, make their home in Waynesburg and are the parents of two adult children.