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Justice
Sharon Fifty. Kennedy
December 7, 2012 - present
Final day of current term: December 31, 2026
Dedicated Public Servant
In November 2020, Justice Sharon L. Kennedy was re-elected for a 2nd time to a full term on the Supreme Court. Justice Kennedy outset joined the courtroom in 2012, having been elected to make full an unexpired term. She was elected to her starting time full term in Nov 2014.
Prior to her term on the Ohio Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy served at the Butler County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, beginning in 1999. From 2005 until December 2012, she served equally the administrative judge of the sectionalisation.Â
After obtaining her law caste from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1991, Justice Kennedy ran a pocket-sized business of her ain as a solo practitioner. While in individual do she served the legal needs of families, juveniles, and the less fortunate. She also worked on behalf of Ohio's taxpayers to collect monies due the Country of Ohio as special counsel to Chaser General Betty D. Montgomery and served as a part-time magistrate in the Butler County Area Courts. As a magistrate, she heard a wide array of ceremonious litigation and assisted law enforcement officers and individual citizens seeking criminal-arrest warrants.
Justice Kennedy began her career in the justice system as a constabulary officer at the Hamilton Constabulary Section. She was assigned to a single-officer road patrol unit working to protect and serve the citizens of the City of Hamilton. From the routine to the centre-pounding, to the heart-breaking she has seen it all. During her time as an officer she also worked undercover operations, implemented crime prevention programs, and later, as a civil assistant, assisted in drafting police policy and process for the Accreditation Program.
Beyond the Bench of the Supreme Court of Ohio
Justice Kennedy has defended herself to the initiative "Lean Forrad: Advancing the Treatment of Veterans Across Ohio" and its annual summit. Through that work she has educated sheriffs, judges, magistrates, and probation and parole officers well-nigh the handling resources available to justice-involved veterans. She besides maintains an agile speaking schedule, talking to students and civic organizations about our tripartite system of authorities and the Ohio judicial system and how it affects our daily lives. She gives audiences a behind-the-scenes look at the Ohio Supreme Court and discusses the common misperceptions of the Right of Free Speech. Justice Kennedy encourages young people to chase their American Dream by sharing her journey from police function to justice of the supreme court.
Proven Problem Solver
While in private do Justice Kennedy partnered with the Butler Canton Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division, to create and implement life-skills classes for juveniles to break the bicycle of recidivism.Â
During her fourth dimension as administrative approximate, she worked to implement a program to break downwardly barriers to employment with the help of Butler County Jobs and Family Services. She improved the instance direction system of the court to ensure the timely resolution of cases for families and children and worked with land legislators to champion a "common sense" family constabulary initiative to resolve an admission-to-justice problem for families.
When Butler County faced tough economic times, Justice Kennedy organized concerned elected officials in a county-wide Upkeep Piece of work Grouping and created the Advisory Committee to the Budget Work Group to bring individual sector know-how to government spending. Serving as the facilitator, she led discussions between county officials and private sector leaders to analyze county finances, report and implement cost saving measures, and present business-driven fiscal policy to the canton commissioners.
Lifetime of Achievement
Throughout her career, Justice Kennedy has served on numerous boards, adult and facilitated programs to address the needs of young people, and worked with judges across the state. As a defended jurist, she has received multiple awards of recognition, including: the 2021 Freedom Laurels from the American Nationalities Movement; the Capital University Law Schoolhouse 2019 Esther Brocker Award; the AMVETS Section of Ohio 2018 Past Department Commanders' Civil Servant of the Yr Laurels; the 2018 National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Silver Proficient Citizenship Medal; 2016 Leadership Ohio Community Leadership Honor; the 2014 University of Cincinnati Higher of Police Nicholas Longworth, 3 Alumni Achievement Honour; 2014 Northwest High School Distinguished Alumnus Award; "Named I of xiii Professional Women to Watch" byThe Cincinnati Enquirer, March 17, 2013; 2009 Excellence in Public Service; 2006 Judge of the Yr; 2002 Above the Fold Award; and the 2001 Furtherance of Justice Laurels. Justice Kennedy was likewise featured inTrends in the Judiciary: Interviews with Judges Across the Globe, Volume II, published by CRC Printing in February 2015.
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Source: https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/SCO/justices/kennedy/