Alex Triantafilou | |
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| Chair of the Ohio Republican Party | |
| Assumed office January 6, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Paduchik |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | University of Cincinnati (BA) Northern Kentucky University (JD) |
Alex M. Triantafilou (pronounced tree-aunt-a-FEE-loo) is an attorney,judge,and politician currently serving as the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party,having previously been chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party. [1]
Triantafilou worked as an assistant prosecuting attorney for Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph T. Deters. He also worked in the office of the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts,Greg Hartmann.
In 2005,Triantafilou was appointed and subsequently won election to the Hamilton County Municipal Court. In 2006,he was appointed to the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. From 2008-2023,he served as chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party. He became chairman of the Ohio Republican Party in January 2023. [2]
Prior to getting into politics,Triantafilou also serves as magistrate,hearing cases regularly before the mayors' courts of Newtown and Harrison,Ohio,and was a partner at the law firm of Dinsmore &Shohl. [3]
Triantafilou was born and raised in Cincinnati to a family of Greek ancestry. He is a graduate of Oak Hills High School,the University of Cincinnati,and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law. He resides in Green Township,Ohio with his wife Jennifer and has a son,Michael. He is a parishioner of Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Finneytown,Ohio. Triantafilou has been involved in the Ohio Mock Trial program through his alma mater,Oak Hills High School.
On April 29,2009,Triantafilou posted a picture of Senator Arlen Specter,who had recently switched from being a Republican to being a Democrat,on his blog;the picture showed Specter bald after his bout with cancer and compared him to Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers film series. After receiving criticisms from Democratic leaders,including Tim Burke,the Democratic Party Chairman in Hamilton County,Triantafilou removed the picture and post from his site. [4]
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