Mary DeGenaro (born April 25, 1961) is a former Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Ohio
The Ohio Supreme Court, Officially known as The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio, with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members, a ...
.
Biography
DeGenaro received her
Bachelor of Arts
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degree from
Youngstown State University
Youngstown State University (YSU or Youngstown State) is a public university in Youngstown, Ohio. It was founded in 1908 and is the easternmost member of the University System of Ohio.
The university is composed of six undergraduate colleges a ...
in 1983 and her
Juris Doctor
The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law
and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice l ...
from the
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. The school traces its origins to Cleveland Law School (founded in 1897), which merged in 1946 with the John ...
in 1986.
After graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to Judge
George Washington White of the
.
She served 14 years in private practice before her election to the bench. During her judicial service, she also served as an adjunct faculty member for the political science department at Youngstown State University.
State court service
DeGenaro served as a judge from 2001 to 2018 on the
Seventh District Court of Appeals in Youngstown.
She was sworn in on February 9, 2001.
Supreme Court of Ohio service
On January 25, 2018, Governor
John Kasich
John Richard Kasich Jr. ( ; born May 13, 1952) is an American politician, author, and television news host who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001 and as the 69th governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019. A Republican, Kasic ...
announced his appointment of DeGenaro to fill the seat vacated by the retirement of
William O'Neill. She was sworn in as Ohio's 159th Justice on January 28, 2018.
At the time of her appointment, it made the composition of the court all Republican jurists and majority female.
On November 8, 2018, DeGenaro faced
Melody J. Stewart in the general election for a seat on the Supreme Court. Stewart won the seat 52.5% to 47.5%.
Recognition and memberships
She served as vice president of the Ohio Women's Bar Association at the time of her Supreme Court appointment.
In 2005, she began serving as a founding member of the Ohio State Bar Association's Appellate Practice Specialty Certification Board, which administers the specialty bar examination and certification.
References
External links
Official Biography on Ohio Supreme Court website*
1961 births
Living people
Cleveland–Marshall College of Law alumni
Lawyers from Cleveland
Ohio Republicans
Ohio state court judges
Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court
Youngstown State University alumni
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American judges
20th-century American judges
20th-century American women lawyers
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21st-century American women judges
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