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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.
Upon her 2007 appointment to the bench, Wiseman became the first openly gay judge in the history of the state of Ohio. [4] During her first year as a judge, Wiseman presided over the high-profile trial of China P. Arnold, a mother found guilty of burning her month-old baby to death in a microwave oven. Wiseman sentenced Arnold to life in prison ...
The Court noted that "[f]ederal judges are appointed for life, not for eternity". [12] Traditionally, law clerks of the deceased judge may be reassigned to other judges on the same court, or may be held over in chambers to work for the successor appointed to replace the deceased judge, although there is no legal requirement or guarantee that ...
Ruiz was sworn in as a United States magistrate judge on October 1, 2016. [4] He filled the vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Kenneth S. McHargh on September 30, 2016. [5] On September 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Ruiz to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Michael Patrick Donnelly (born August 30, 1966) is an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio from 2019 to 2024. He formerly served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas from 2005 to 2019. In 2024, Donnelly lost re-election to his seat to Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas judge Megan E. Shanahan.
Members of the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio (7 P) Pages in category "Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio" The following 162 pages are in this category, out of 162 total.
As a magistrate judge, Newman led the effort to create the first Federal Veterans Treatment Court in the Southern District of Ohio, and has served as its presiding judge since the fall of 2015. [ 4 ] On February 26, 2020, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Newman to a seat on the United States District Court for the ...
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 ...