June 7, 2010
Lucas County Resident Appointed Chair of Supreme Court Committee
Lucas County resident William G. Jennings will lead the Advisory Committee on the Judicial Family Network as chair for 2010-11, the Supreme Court of Ohio announced today. He replaces Pam Harris whose one-year term as chair is ending.
With 725 judges at all levels of the judiciary in Ohio, the 18-member advisory committee identifies the needs and concerns of judicial families and offers them educational opportunities and a supportive network. Mary Moyer, wife of the late Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, founded the advisory committee in 2000 after her work with the Judicial Family Institute. The institute, which is affiliated with the national Conference of Chief Justices, focuses on the challenges of public life for judicial families nationally.
Jennings, the husband of Lucas County Common Pleas Court Judge Linda J. Jennings, is serving his first term on the advisory committee after his appointment in 2008. Engaged in private practice in Lucas County, he received his law degree from the University of Toledo College of Law.
Judge Jennings began serving on the common pleas bench in May 2006. She also obtained her law degree from the University of Toledo College of Law. Before serving on the bench, she practiced criminal defense law in federal and common pleas courts, and, at that time, was the only woman in the county qualified to be lead counsel representing defendants in death penalty cases.
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