| Phyllis T. Kernick | |
| State House: | Pennsylvania |
| District: | 32nd |
| Term Start: | 1975 |
| Term End: | January 7, 1980[1] |
| Predecessor: | Robert F. Burkhardt |
| Successor: | Albert Rasco |
| Birth Date: | 14 December 1924[2] |
| Birth Place: | Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Death Date: | [3] |
| Death Place: | Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Spouse: | William Kernick |
Phyllis T. Kernick (December 14, 1924 – January 21, 2009) was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[4] [5]
Born in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, on December 14, 1924, Kernick graduated from Penn Hills High School and the two-year business program of the Robert Morris School of Business (now Robert Morris University).[6]
She then pursued further studies at Duquesne University, Point Park College (now Point Park University), and the University of Pittsburgh's Institute of Local Government.[7]
She and her husband, William Kernick, had six children between 1947 and 1960.[8]
Employed as a secretary with the international law firm of Reed Smith, she was elected as auditor for the Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority in 1964,[9] and was then elected as treasurer of Penn Hills Township, serving in that capacity from 1969 to 1976. During her early career, she had also served as a member of the Allegheny Regional Planning Council and the Governor's Justice Commission.[10]
Elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1974 term, she was subsequently reelected in 1976 and 1978.[11]
Following her resignation from the Pennsylvania House on January 7, 1980, she was elected as mayor of Penn Hills Township. She served in that capacity from 1980 to 1984. Roughly a decade later, she was elected to the Penn Hills Township Council, and served on that leadership body from 1994 to 1998.[12]
Kernick died from congestive heart failure at the age of eighty-four on January 21, 2009, in Penn Hills Township, and was interred at the Plum Creek Cemetery in Plum, Pennsylvania.[13] [14]