Twelfth Family Court Circuit (McDowell and Mercer Counties) Judge Anthony Bisaha was born and raised in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. He has a 1982 bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a 1992 law degree from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich.

He started practicing law in 1993 in Mercer County and had been practicing family law for 15 years when then-Governor Joe Manchin III appointed him to the bench in 2008. He was elected to the seat in 2010 and re-elected in 2016 and 2024. Judge Bisaha is the substitute judge for the Twelfth Circuit Juvenile Drug Court.

He was a middle school baseball coach, Concord University Adjunct Professor, and a Knights of Columbus member.

Judge Bisaha and his wife, Debra, have been married since 1987 and have three sons.