Keith J. Gillespie

Keith J. Gillespie

Career Gillespie worked as a paramedic in the 1970s and was director of safety, security, and pre-hospital systems at York Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania from 1980 to 2003. He was deputy coroner of York County, Pennsylvania from 1997 to 1998. In 2022, Gillespie was defeated in the primary election by Joe D'Orsie. His defeat came after earning the ire of rightwing Republicans who contended that he did not adequately oppose lockdown measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, Gillespie supported following CDC guidelines and stood by the response of Governor Tom Wolf's administration, though he later became critical of what businesses the governor deemed essential versus non-essential and the failure of the state's unemployment compensation system.