Richard Michael DeWine is an American politician and attorney serving since 2019 as the 70th governor of Ohio. He served as the 50th Attorney General of Ohio from 2011 to 2019,and in both houses of Congress:in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991 and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Theodore S. Celeste is an American businessman and former politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. After serving in the Peace Corps,Celeste,the brother of former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Dick Celeste,ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and lost to the Republican incumbent Mike DeWine. In 2006,Celeste was elected State Representative of Ohio's 24th District,and served until 2012.
The Ohio attorney general is the chief legal officer of the State of Ohio in the United States. The office is filled by general election,held every four years. The current Ohio attorney general is Republican Dave Yost.
Marc Dann is an American former politician of the Democratic Party,who served as the Attorney General of Ohio from 2007 until his resignation on May 14,2008.
Betty Montgomery is an American politician from the state of Ohio. A Republican,she formerly served as Ohio State Auditor and is the first woman Ohio Attorney General.
Richard Adams Cordray is an American lawyer and politician serving as the COO of Federal Student Aid in the United States Department of Education. He served as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2012 to 2017. Before that,Cordray variously served as Ohio's attorney general,solicitor general,and treasurer. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio in 2018.
Jennifer Lee Brunner is an American attorney,politician and judge. She is currently an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court,a position to which she was elected after serving as a judge on Ohio's Tenth District Court of Appeals. On June 8,2021,Brunner announced her candidacy for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in the November 8,2022,general election. Brunner is a member of the Democratic Party who served as the Ohio Secretary of State;Brunner was the first woman to serve in this capacity. She took office after sixteen years of Republican control,which included two four-year terms by her predecessor J. Kenneth Blackwell,who oversaw the 2000 and 2004 United States elections. Brunner served only a single term as Secretary of State. When it came time for re-election in 2010,she instead made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. Prior to being elected Secretary of State,Brunner worked in the Ohio Secretary of State's Office and served as a County Judge in Franklin County,Ohio. She also owned her own private practice;during her private practice career,she focused on election law and campaign finance law. She represented a broad range of candidates,businesses,political parties and committees before the Ohio Elections Commission on quasi-criminal matters.
Alex M. Triantafilou 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.
The Solicitor General of Ohio,Ohio Solicitor General,State Solicitor of Ohio,or Ohio State Solicitor is the top appellate solicitor or lawyer for the U.S. State of Ohio. It is an appointed position in the Office of the Ohio Attorney General that focuses on the office's major appellate cases. The majority of the cases handled by the Solicitor are argued in the United States Supreme Court or the Supreme Court of Ohio. However some cases within the Solicitor's responsibilities are under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and the state appellate courts. The Solicitor represents the Attorney General of Ohio before the Supreme Court of Ohio and other appellate courts,as needed. He write most of the amicus briefs filed by the Ohio attorney general’s office.
Kent Richard Markus is an American attorney. He currently works as bar counsel and general counsel for the Columbus Bar Association. Before working at the CBA,he served as a Senior Advisor in the Director's Office and Director of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Markus served as Counselor and Chief Legal Counsel to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and as a law professor Capital University Law School. During the administration of President Clinton,he was a senior official at the United States Department of Justice. Markus was also a federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,though his nomination was never voted upon by the Senate.
Karen Kaye Caldwell is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Dinsmore is a large U.S. law firm with a lead administrative office in Cincinnati,Ohio. It is an AmLaw 200 and National Law Journal 250 firm,and has been named to the U.S. News &World Report and Best Lawyers Best Law Firm lists. The firm consists of more than 750 attorneys practicing in 30 cities throughout California,Colorado,Connecticut,Florida,Georgia,Illinois,Indiana,Kentucky,Massachusetts,Michigan,Ohio,Pennsylvania,West Virginia and Washington D.C.
Matthew John Dolan is an American attorney and politician who has served as a member of the Ohio Senate from the 24th district since 2017. He previously served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010.
The 2014 Ohio gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014. Incumbent Republican Governor John Kasich won reelection to a second term in office by a landslide over Democratic candidate Ed FitzGerald and Green Party candidate Anita Rios. Primary elections were held on May 6,2014.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Ohio was held November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Ohio,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The close of registration for electors in the primary election was December 16,2015,and the primary election took place on March 15,2016. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman faced former Democratic Governor Ted Strickland. Green Party nominee Joseph DeMare was also on the ballot along with two other independent candidates and one officially declared write-in candidate.
The 2015 Columbus mayoral election took place on November 3,2015,to elect the Mayor of Columbus,Ohio. The election was officially nonpartisan,with the top two candidates from the May 5 primary advancing to the general election,regardless of party.
The 2018 Ohio gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of Ohio,concurrently with the election of Ohio's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various Ohio and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor John Kasich was term-limited and could not seek re-election for a third consecutive term.
Morgan Harper is an American attorney,community organizer,and political candidate. After working as a senior advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,in 2020 she campaigned against incumbent Joyce Beatty to represent Ohio's 3rd congressional district,which includes Columbus,in the United States House of Representatives. Also in 2020,she founded the non-profit Columbus Stand Up. In 2022 she ran for the United States Senate to succeed Rob Portman. She lost in the Democratic Primary to congressman Tim Ryan 69-17%.
The 2010 Ohio Attorney General election was held on November 6,2010,concurrently with other statewide offices including a Class 1 Senate election as well as the Governor election. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Richard Cordray who was elected in a 2008 special election ran for a full 4-year term but was defeated by Republican challenger and former 2-term United States senator Mike DeWine. Being decided by 1.2%,this was the closest statewide election in Ohio. Cordray and DeWine would later face off against each other again in the 2018 Governor election.
The 2008 Ohio Attorney General special election was held on November 4,2010,concurrently with the Presidential Election as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives. Incumbent Attorney General Marc Dann who was elected in 2006 resigned on May 14,2008 due to various scandals,thus triggering a special election. Governor Ted Strickland appointed Nancy H. Rogers to the position,but she announced she would not run to complete the rest of Marc's term. On June 11,2008,Ohio State Treasurer Richard Cordray announced his candidacy for the election. He was challenged in the general election by former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Michael Crites. Cordray won in a landslide winning 56% of the vote to Crites' 38%.
