Pat DeWine | |
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Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
Assumed office January 2, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Paul Pfeifer |
Personal details | |
Born | Richard Patrick DeWine February 22,1968[ citation needed ] |
Political party | Republican |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Mike DeWine (father) |
Education | Miami University (BA) University of Michigan (JD) |
Richard Patrick DeWine (born February 22,1968)[ citation needed ] is an American jurist who has served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court since 2017. He served as a justice of the 1st district of the Ohio District Courts of Appeals from 2013 to 2017 and as a politician in Hamilton County,Ohio. He is the son of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.
DeWine is the oldest of eight children born to Mike DeWine and Frances Struewing. DeWine grew up in the Mount Lookout neighborhood of Cincinnati. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University,he graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1994 and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. [1] [2]
DeWine served as a member of the Cincinnati City Council and the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners . He was first elected to city council in 1999,finishing sixth with 27,745 votes in a field of 20 (with the top nine elected). He was re-elected in 2001 (finishing second with 43,191 votes in a field of 26) and in 2003 (finishing sixth with 26,573 votes in a field of 26). He resigned from city council in order to take his seat on the Hamilton County Commission. [3] Chris Monzel,a Republican who had lost his council seat in the last election,was appointed to fill out DeWine's term on city council.
DeWine was a candidate in the June 14,2005 Republican primary for the Ohio's 2nd congressional district special election after Rob Portman resigned to become U.S. Trade Representative. He placed fourth behind Jean Schmidt,Bob McEwen,and Tom Brinkman. His campaign for Congress suffered after allegations of infidelity surfaced against DeWine. [4]
DeWine sought and won election to the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in 2008,defeating Norma Holt Davis in the general election. He subsequently won a seat on the 1st District Ohio District Courts of Appeals in 2012,defeating Bruce Whitman in the November 6,2012 election. [5]
DeWine took his seat on the Appellate bench in January 2013 after defeating Bruce Whitman in the November 2012 general election. He won an uncontested Republican primary election in March 2016 for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court commencing January 2,2017. [6] In November 2016 he won election to that seat over his Democratic opponent. He was reelected to the Ohio Supreme Court in November 2022 for a second six-year term. Prior to his election as a justice,he served as a judge on the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals and the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas and was an associate for 13 years with the firm of Keating Muething &Klekamp.
In August 2021,DeWine withdrew from the contest to be nominated as Ohio Supreme Court chief justice in succession to Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor. [7]
DeWine refused to recuse from a case in which his father,Governor Mike DeWine,was a party [8] and helped author the minority opinion that would have upheld an unconstitutional gerrymander approved by the Ohio Redistricting Commission,on which Governor DeWine sits. [9]
DeWine's first marriage ended in divorce in 2003. [3] [10] He and his ex-wife have three sons. [4] He was married to his second wife,Rhonda DeWine,from 2010 until 2019 when she filed for divorce. [11]
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