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In the general election, Sherrie Miday defeated Matthew McMonagle by receiving 54.07% of the votes. She ran unopposed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas General Division Democratic primary election. With this historic win, on November 8, 2016, she became the first Egyptian-American to be elected as a judge in the United States. [1] [7 ...
First Jewish American male (Supreme Court of Ohio): Gilbert Bettman (c. 1942) [7] First African American male (common pleas): Charles W. White in 1955 [8] First African American male elected (common pleas): Robert V. Franklin, Jr. in 1968 [9] First African American male (Ohio Supreme Court): Robert Morton Duncan (1952) in 1969 [10]
The duties of the courts are outlined in Article IV, Section 4. Each of Ohio's 88 counties has a court of common pleas. The Ohio General Assembly (the state legislature) has the power to divide courts of common pleas into divisions, and has done so, establishing general, domestic relations, juvenile, and probate divisions:
In 1991, Gaul began serving as a judge for the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. [2] On October 7, 2010, the Ohio Supreme Court suspended Gaul for threatening to jail a defendant he thought was intimidating an elderly witness.
In 1945, Jackson won the first of three elections to the Cleveland Municipal Court, a six-year term. [2] [3] He won the second and third elections in 1951 and 1957. [2] In 1960, Jackson won election to the domestic relations division of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, and subsequently was elected to terms in the Common Pleas general ...
He previously served as a judge on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas General Division in Cleveland, Ohio. He first joined the court on January 3, 2005. [1] From 2010 to 2017, he was one of five judges on Cuyahoga County’s Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Court, which oversees criminal cases involving defendants who suffer from schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, or a ...
The only remaining courts retaining the name "court of common pleas" are therefore in the United States: the Courts of Common Pleas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Delaware. Of these, the first two are superior trial courts of general jurisdiction , the third is the civil division of the superior trial court of general jurisdiction ...
Four large chimneys framed the building on the sides. This building, eventually called "the old court-house," filled all the requirements of county business until 1875. Ground was then purchased on Seneca Street (West 3rd St.), running back to the county jail on Rockwell street, and a contract let for a new court-house, at a cost of $250,000.