JUDGEMORGAN 
CHRIS MALLIOS
BATHGATE

Judge Christopher Mallios joined the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in January 2016 after 
practicing law for more than twenty eight years.  He is assigned to the Domestic Relations Section of the 
Family Law Division, where he presides over proceedings involving protection from abuse, child custody, 
Morgan Bathgate is a college student at Messiah University studying Psychology. She 
divorce and criminal law.  Before joining the bench he was the inaugural Sexual Violence Investigative 
graduated in 2020 from Mechanicsburg Area Senior High where she also played water 
Officer at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as the principal investigator of complaints of 
polo, swam competitively, played violin, maintained a 4.0 GPA and took six Advanced 
violations of the University’s policy on sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking.  
Placement (AP) classes.

Before that, Judge Mallios served as an Attorney Advisor for Aequitas: The Prosecutor’s Resource 
She was diagnosed with Autism when she was 3 years old. Morgan likes to remind people 
on Violence Against Women from 2010 to 2015, where he earned a national reputation as an expert 
that she may think differently, learn differently and at times struggle to focus—but she 
embraces her extraordinary abilities. She is different—but not less.
on sexual violence, domestic violence, stalking, elder abuse and human trafficking. He has traveled 
throughout the country training and presenting to lawyers, judges and others regarding best practices 
Morgan describes herself as family oriented, artsy, techie, bookish, musical and 
in responding to these complaints.  He was a frequent presenter for the judge advocate general corps 
adventurous. She loves nature, animals, video games and drawing.
lawyers in all branches of the U.S. armed forces. He has also taught judges, lawyers and law enforcement 
officers how to improve the criminal justice response to gender-based violence in Liberia and Nepal.  

Previously, Judge Mallios worked in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office for nearly 16 years in a 
series of progressively responsible positons culminating in his service as chief of the office’s Family 
Violence and Sexual Assault Unit. He was also selected to serve as the District Attorney’s liaison to 
Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community. He was responsible for ongoing training of more than 300 prosecutors 
as the District Attorney’s Director of Continuing Legal Education and was a frequent presenter for the 
Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute. 

Judge Mallios also teaches integrated trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the Beasley School of 
Law at Temple University.   He was previously appointed to be an adjunct professor at the School of 
Social Policy of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an affiliate of the Ortner Center for Family 
Violence. Judge Mallios has also worked as a criminal defense attorney, representing many indigent 
defendants as a court-appointed lawyer in criminal trials including death penalty cases and in mental 
health court.  He is a member of the Education Committee of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas 
and he is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Temple American Inn of Court.

His honors and awards include the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations Award for Human 
Rights in Law Enforcement, the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance Team Excellence Award and Women 
Organized Against Rape’s Signature Award. Judge Mallios received his BS in science from the 
Pennsylvania State University and his JD from Temple University School of Law. He served as a law clerk 
on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, and was admitted 
to the bars of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania.