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Extensive litigation experience in both criminal and civil matters. I have represented both the State of Ohio as an assistant prosecuting attorney and individuals before various common pleas courts and city courts charged with both felony and misdemeanor criminal offenses. Additionally, I have extensive civil litigation experience, including contract disputes, landlord and tenant issue, insurance defense, domestic relations and juvenile matters. I am currently a magistrate serving the Greene County Juvenile Court.

Throughout my years practicing law, I have had the privilege of observing and learning from numerous judges and magistrates whom I deeply admire. These individuals consistently demonstrated impartiality, patience, courtesy, compassion, firmness, decisiveness, and unwavering integrity in every decision they rendered. Their example has profoundly shaped my own approach, and I strive to carry that same judicial temperament into my role as a magistrate—ensuring that every attorney, court staff member, and party who appears before me is treated with fairness, respect, and thoughtful consideration.

As a court-appointed and private attorney, I represented clients—including veterans—with substance abuse and mental health challenges, often first addressed after criminal charges. I support alternatives to incarceration when appropriate, including diversion, Intervention in Lieu of Conviction, and specialty dockets, recognizing that outcomes must be tailored to each case within the bounds of the law while utilizing Montgomery County resources and maintaining community safety.

I began working in 2014 as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, where I have spent my entire career. During my time as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, I worked in the Child Protection Unit, Grand Jury Division, and most recently, the Criminal Division, which handles all felony offenses committed within Montgomery County. I have prosecuted countless offenses, ranging from financial crimes to homicide, and I have been involved in many complex and high-profile cases. For the last five years, I have served as a Trial Supervisor in the Criminal Division.

I believe the Honorable Mary Wiseman, current Administrative Judge of Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, sets the standard to which all new judges should aspire. Judge Wiseman conducts herself with such poise and composure. She remains kind and professional to all parties involved no matter how trying and difficult circumstances may become. Judge Wiseman is remarkably intelligent and equally humble. In her courtroom, it is not about her; it is about the people involved in the cases, and it is about doing the grueling work to arrive at the fair and just result in accordance with the law.

Community control sanctions should be structured to address the offender's individualized problem areas, whether those be obtaining employment and housing, making victims whole through restitution, seeking mental health and substance abuse treatment, or something else. The goal is to provide the resources and incentives to change course so that incarceration does not end up being the inevitable outcome. The Court's supervision can be a powerful motivating force, and the aim is to give the offender the best possible chance at rehabililitation while continuing to hold them accountable.

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