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The Ohio Judicial Appointments Recommendations Panel is currently accepting applications to fill a vacant seat on the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, General Division, due to the retirement of Judge Alex M. Triantafilou.
Applicants for the Court of Common Pleas position must be a resident and registered elector of Hamilton County and not yet 70 years old on the day they begin their duties, as dictated by Ohio law. In addition, they must be admitted to practice law in Ohio and have maintained their legal license for six years prior to assuming the judicial post or served as a judge of a court of record in any jurisdiction in the United States.
The term of the Hamilton County appointment will extend until Jan. 1, 2009. To continue service in the position, the appointee must run in the November 2008 judicial election.
In the case of all judicial vacancies, applicants must follow the guidelines set forth by the Ohio Judicial Appointments Recommendations Panel to ensure their eligibility for appointment.
Applications must be submitted directly to the judicial panel and will then be distributed to the at-large and regional panel members. Details and the full text of the application procedure are available on the judicial panel’s section of the governor’s Web site, http://www.governor.ohio.gov/.
Requirements for all applicants include submitting a letter of interest, resume, panel questionnaire at http://governor2.ohio.gov/Portals/0/OJARP/OJARP%20questionnaire.pdf, and no more than six letters of recommendation.
Additional details about OJARP and the application process can be found at http://ojarp.org/.
All materials submitted by applicants for a judicial vacancy will be considered public record under Ohio law. Applicant communication with panel members must be directed to the entire panel; all attempts to contact or influence a panel member are prohibited. Applicant questions and concerns should be addressed to Kent Markus or Jeff Ruppert in the Governor’s Office at 614.466.3555.
Applications for the Hamilton County appointment must be received by 5 p.m. April 21.
Candidates must be available to interview in person on May 6 in Columbus. Individual candidate times and interview locations will be determined at a later date.
Governor Strickland has selected the following individuals to serve on the regional panel for the current Hamilton County vacancy:
Barbara Bison Jacobson, Partner at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, LLP
Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, CEO of Sesh Communications and publisher of The Cincinnati Herald, The Northern Kentucky Herald and The Dayton Defender
Timothy Burke, partner at Manley Burke, LPA, and chair of the Hamilton County Board of Elections
Tony Brice, vice president of Laborers Local No. 265 and executive committee member of the Greater Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council
Kristen Myers, attorney at Beckman Weil Shepardson LLC
Mary Asbury, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati
At-large panel members assigned to the Hamilton County vacancy:
Janet E. Jackson, Chair, President and CEO of United Way of Central Ohio
Meg Flack, Board Member of the Ohio League of Women Voters
Doloris Learmonth, Managing partner at Peck Shaffer and Williams LLP in Cincinnati
Joy Malek Oldfield, Partner at Hill Hardman Oldfield, LLC, in Akron
Charles “Rocky” Saxbe, Former state representative, currently a senior partner in the Columbus law firm of Chester, Wilcox and Saxbe, LLP