Timothy P. Wile received his Bachelor’s degrees in economics and pre-law studies from Pennsylvania State University in 1974. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of North Dakota in 1979 and his Master of Laws degree from Temple University in 1984. He is admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Wile served as the chief parole attorney for the Montgomery County Public Defender’s Office from January 1982 through April 1984, representing inmates at over 1,000 parole revocation hearings before the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, and prosecuting more than 100 parole revocation appeals before the Pennsylvania Supreme and Commonwealth Courts. He was the parolee’s attorney in Cox v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, 507 Pa. 614, 493 A.2d 680 (1985), where the Pennsylvania Supreme Court first held that state parolees could, under certain conditions, receive credit against their maximum sentences for time spent in Parole Board-mandated in-patient drug and alcohol treatment centers. From April 1984 through September 1987, he served as a law clerk to two Commonwealth Court judges. From September 1987 through February 1990, Mr. Wile served as an Assistant Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, where he was the lead attorney for the Parole Board in the case of Smith v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, 524 Pa. 500, 574 A.2d 558 (1990), wherein the Pennsylvania Supreme Court first held that an appointed public defender could be held liable for the payment of attorney’s fees under the Rules of Appellate Procedure, for filing and prosecuting a frivolous appeal of a parole revocation order. From February 1990 through September 2007, he was the Assistant Counsel In-Charge of the Appellate Section of the Vehicle and Traffic Law Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, where he litigated more than 3,000 driver licensing and motor vehicle appeals before Pennsylvania’s three appellate courts. He is currently chief of the Appellate Division of the Montgomery County Public Defender’s Office.

Mr. Wile is one of the most published legal authors in Pennsylvania on the subject of probation and parole law. In addition to having been a regular contributing author to The Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, two of his articles on the parole revocation process in Pennsylvania have appeared in the Dickinson Law Review. Mr. Wile has taught seminars on probation and parole law for state parole agents and county probation officers throughout Pennsylvania. His treatise, Pennsylvania Law of Probation and Parole, was cited with approval by Mr. Justice David Souter in Justice Souter’s dissenting opinion in the case of Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole v. Scott, 524 U.S. 357, 375 (1998). Mr. Wile is also a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve, having served more than 23 years on active and reserve duty. His military service includes a 16–year assignment as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, wherein he authored and edited The Pennsylvania Law Study and The New Jersey Law Study, which are summaries of selected areas of Pennsylvania and New Jersey law that are part of The Judge Advocate General’s Preventive Law Program and were distributed to Air Force installations worldwide. He is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal (with oak leaf cluster), the Air Force Commendation Medal, and the Air Force Achievement Medal.

Mr. Wile is married to Leora L. Peterson, has two children, Theresa and Zachary, and two grandchildren, Peyton and Raquel. (June 2016)

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Pennsylvania Practice V.12 Law of Probation and Parole, 2025-2026 ed.

Pennsylvania Practice V.12 Law of Probation and Parole, 2025-2026 ed.