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In a key race to fill an open judicial seat at Oakland County Circuit Court, three lawyers vied in the non-partisan contest: Tricia Dare, Nicole Sophia-Calhoun Huddleston and Moneka Sanford. With ...
Appeals court judges in Ohio will be paid a salary of $178,108 next year. ... But beginning in 2022, a change in state law made appeals court elections fully partisan — for the first time ...
Megan E. Shanahan (born 1972 or 1973) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court since 2025. She served as a judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas from 2015 to 2024.
The lowest level is the courts of common pleas, the intermediate-level courts are the district courts of appeals, and the highest-ranking court is the Ohio Supreme Court. Ohio municipal and county courts hear cases involving traffic violations, non-traffic misdemeanors, evictions and small civil claims (in which the amount in controversy does ...
The Seventh District Court of Appeals is composed of four judges, each elected to six-year terms by the citizens of the eight counties in the district. [3] Ohio Law requires that a person running for election as an appellate judge must have been licensed as an attorney in Ohio for at least six years or have served as a judge in any jurisdiction for at least six years. [4]
Patricia Delaney, presiding judge of Ohio's 5th District Court of Appeals, is running in the Republican primary for reelection to her seat on the court, which is based in Canton and serves 15 ...
They are the only trial courts created by the Ohio Constitution (in Article IV, Section 1). 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 ...
The Ohio Supreme Court overturned the case, based on Bates receiving ineffective legal counsel. In 2023, Bates pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.