Employment:

• Assistant County Prosecutor, Cuyahoga County, 1987-1990 and 2003-2009
• Magistrate and Court Administrator, Medina County Juvenile/Probate Court, 1996-2003
• Assistant County Prosecutor, Medina County, 1990-1996
• Judge, Cuyahoga County Probate Court, Since 2009

Education:

• Case Western Reserve School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, J.D., cum laude, May 1986
• Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, May, 1983

Memberships:

• Ohio State Bar Association
• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Foundation Member
• Adult Protective Services Interdisciplinary Team Steering Committee
• President, Lawyers Guild of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
• Irish American Law Society
• William K. Thomas American Inn of Court

Leadership

• President Elect, Ohio Association of Probate Judges
• OAPJ Probate Modernization Committee
• OAPJ Forms Committee
• Ohio Judicial Conference Executive Committee
• Ohio Judicial Conference Judicial Education Committee
• Co-Chair Probate Law and Procedure Committee
• Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure
• Supreme Court of Ohio Subcommittee on Adult Guardianship
• Supreme Court of Ohio HB1 Implementation Work Group

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