Pete Vaughn was born on February 15, 1975, in York, Pennsylvania. He grew up in York City, graduating from William Penn Senior High School in 1993. He studied at Hampden-Sydney College in Farmville, Virginia, before transferring his credits to Penn State-Main Campus in State College, Pennsylvania. He graduated in May of 2000, with a bachelor's degree. After college, Pete taught at his high school alma mater before deciding to go to law school.
In 2001, Pete enrolled at the Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Throughout law school, he worked in criminal law as an intern at the York County District Attorney's Office. He also learned the civil side of the law by working under the tutelage of his father, Glenn. In the spring of 2004, Pete graduated from Widener and took the Pennsylvania Bar Exam, passing on his first attempt.
Upon admission to practice law in Pennsylvania in the fall of 2004, Pete began working as a Deputy Prosecutor in the York County District Attorney's Office under the Honorable H. Stanley Rebert. He prosecuted all types of cases, trying dozens of bench and jury trials. For almost two years, he was assigned to the Special Case Unit prosecuting juvenile delinquents and adult sex offenders. He left the District Attorney's Office in January of 2008, to start practicing with his father, full-time, under the firm name The Vaughn Law Firm LLC. Pete became the owner of the firm in 2015. In 2020, Pete merged the firm with the Gettle family to form Gettle Vaughn Law.
Pete focuses his practice on Criminal Defense, Family Law, Civil Litigation, Wills, Trusts & Estates, Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Business Organization, and Juvenile Law. In addition to the Pennsylvania county and appellate courts, he is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and York County Bar Associations.
