Greg Hartmann

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Greg Hartmann

Greg Hartmann (born 1967) was a member of the three-member Board of Commissioners [1] in Hamilton County, Ohio. He was elected to his first term in January 2009, and was re-elected to a second term in January 2013. He served as the President of the Board in 2011 and 2012. He is a member of the Republican Party. During his time as Commissioner, Hartmann has focused on cost savings and efficiency in County government, economic development and public safety. Hartmann has also supported and spearheaded the creation of several important community outreach initiatives.

Hamilton County, Ohio County in the United States

Hamilton County is a county in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 802,374. making it the third-most populous county in Ohio. The county seat is Cincinnati. The county is named for the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.

Republican Party (United States) Major political party in the United States

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Early life and education

Hartmann was born on January 14, 1967. He attended high school at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas, TX, graduating in 1985. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In 1997, he graduated with honors from Pepperdine University School of Law.

Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas American private college-preparatory school

Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas is a private, college-preparatory school for young men under the direction of the Society of Jesus and home to the Jesuit Dallas Museum in Dallas, Texas. While Jesuit operates independently of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, it exists and serves the Catholic community with the leave of the bishop.

Dallas City in Texas, United States

Dallas, officially the City of Dallas, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Dallas County, with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With an estimated 2017 population of 1,341,075, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. It is also the eighteenth most-populous city in North America as of 2015. Located in North Texas, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country at 7.5 million people as of 2018. The city's combined statistical area is the seventh-largest in the U.S. as of 2017, with 7,846,293 residents.

Washington and Lee University private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, United States

Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia. Established in 1749, the university is a colonial-era college and the ninth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

Hartmann began his legal career in 1999 in the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office as an Assisting Prosecuting Attorney. Hartmann prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases including many violent felonies.

Hartmann is currently a partner at the Cincinnati law firm Shea, Coffey & Hartmann.

Elected office

Clerk of Courts In 2003, Hartmann was appointed to be Hamilton County Clerk of Courts after serving the Executive Director of the Hamilton County Republican Party. The Clerk’s office is responsible for maintaining official court documents for the Court of Appeals, Court of Common Pleas and Municipal Court.

Hartmann served nearly six years as Clerk of Courts, where he earned a national reputation for modernizing the office and making it more accountable to taxpayers. As Clerk, Hartmann cut $3 million from his budget through careful fiscal management and was featured in dozens of news accounts for his groundbreaking work in protecting Ohioans from identity theft. [ citation needed ]

Hamilton County Commissioner

Hartmann was elected in 2009 to his first four-year term on the Board of Commissioners, where he served with Democrats Todd Portune and David Pepper. The three-member Board is the policy body for the County, overseeing the County’s General and Restricted Funds as well as several core services provided to residents by County government.

Todd Portune American politician

Todd Portune is an American lawyer and politician who serves as a Hamilton County Commissioner. Portune is regarded as left of center on social issues, and a fiscal conservative.

David Pepper (politician) American politician

David Andrew Pepper is an American politician, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, a former councilman for the city of Cincinnati and former member of the Hamilton County, Ohio Board of Commissioners.

During his first term, Hartmann focused on cost-saving measures to keep the County’s budget balanced during the economic downturn. From 2009 to 2012, Hartmann voted to cut $40 million from the County General Fund budget. Despite these cuts he led the way for reallocation of $1 million for public safety needs in the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department and recommended several other ____ to preserve the public safety function in Hamilton County.

Hartmann served as President of the Board in 2011 and 2012, serving alongside fellow Commissioners Chris Monzel (R) and Todd Portune (D). Under his leadership, the County pursued several strategies to strengthen the regional environment for job creation and save County taxpayer dollars. Key priorities of his policy agenda (link to policy agenda online) on economic development include strengthening the role of the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, creating a County Land Bank, and pursuing shared services opportunities between Hamilton County, City of Cincinnati and various municipalities to reduce duplication and create efficiencies in local government.

Hartmann was reelected in 2013 to his second term, running unopposed. Hartmann declined to run for re-election in 2016. [2]

Other political work and campaigns

Hartmann is active in the Republican Party at the local, State and National Level. Hartmann has served as the Hamilton County Campaign Chair for Ohio Gubernatorial winner John Kasich in the 2010 election, as well as Hamilton County Campaign Co-Chair for Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.

Community outreach

In 2009, Commissioner Hartmann partnered with the University of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Job & Family Services to create the Higher Education Mentoring Initiative, which pairs academic mentors with Hamilton County foster children in order to encourage them to pursue post-secondary education after graduation. The program has seen great successes so far, with 100% of HEMI students having graduated high school and 80% enrolling in a post-secondary institution.

In response to the increase of predatory fraud and scams occurring during the economic downturn, Hartmann launched the Hamilton County Coalition to Stop Fraud, Scams, and Abuse in January 2011. The thirty-member Coalition released a Comprehensive Community Plan and Web site to pro-actively educate citizens on the prevention, detection and reporting of fraud and scams in the community.

Hartmann also devotes time to many other local causes, businesses and non-profit organizations.

Personal

Hartmann currently lives in Hyde Park, Ohio with his wife Tracy and five children.

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References

  1. ↑ "Board of County Commissioners". Archived from the original on 2013-05-27. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
  2. ↑ Horn, Dan; Coolidge, Sharon (November 23, 2015). "Hartmann out of commissioner race". Cincinnati Enquirer . Retrieved January 4, 2019.
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