ODB List of Court of Appeals Candidates

I have added candidates for the Court of Appeals to the ODB 2008 Candidates List. Please let me know if I have left anyone off the list, or any comments or questions. Court of Appeals posts are extremely important, although generally under-reported. Although these are technically nonpartisan races, parties do support candidates and it is vital to get Democratic judges elected.

I have also added a clickable table of contents to the top of the list to help with navigation, and I am working on expanding the list of county officer candidates to all 27 counties with more than 100,000 residents. Any assistance in identifying candidates would be much appreciated.

UPDATE: Nice to hear from Michele DeCresce of Monroe, Ohio, who is heading up the campaign of her husband Bruce Carter for a Court of Appeals judgeship in the 12th District. She pointed out that there are two seats up for election in the district, one newly created and the other vacant due to a retirement, and she provided the link to Carter's campaign web site. Carter is a navy veteran and personal injury attorney with a law degree from the University of Akron and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Dayton. In his stellar career he has worked to obtain fair compensation for asbestos cancer victims and worked on cases in half a dozen states. He is part of a group of attorneys who have worked to create a compensation fund from Travelers Insurance Company worth over $400 million and has served as co-chair of the Court Appointed Official Creditors’ Committee of the Combustion Engineering bankruptcy, trying to prevent a Swiss parent company from avoiding responsibility for the injuries caused by it's U.S.-based subsidiary.

DeCrese points out that Democrats haven't contested a judicial race in this appellate district for a decade and it is desperately important to get Democrats elected to the bench to restore some ideological balance to an extremely conservative court. This year there are two Democrats running, Carter and attorney Laura Curliss (D-Wilmington). They deserve support and resource for taking up the cause.