Judge Thomas King Kister (of Centre County)and the students of the Legal Eagle 3 Program at Clearfield St. Francis.

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Students hear judge -- Centre County Judge Tom Kistler talked with Legal Eagle students at St. Francis School about how and why he became a judge, as well as some of his cases. He told the students after graduating from high school, he went to college for four years, law schools for three years and then had to pass the bar exam to become a lawyer. In order to become a judge, a person must first be a lawyer, he told the students. He told them the deals with many types of cases, from adoptions, to divorces, to juvenile to murders. The hardest part of being a judge for him, he said, is when parents are divorcing and cannot get along and the children are stud in the middle. He also said judges wear robes to they look more alike and more authoritative. Judge Kistler has been a judge since January 1998. Centre County has three judges and is preparing for its fourth. Mark Falvo, representing Clearfield County Crimestoppers, said the Legal Eagle program is patterned after what Judge Kistler did in Centre County.