Candidate for
Judge; Supreme Court; Unexpired Term Ending December 31, 2006

I serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of Our Lady of the Wayside, where my brother, John, resides in a group home and receives excellent services. I have also served as Executive Director of the Cleveland St. Patrick's Day Parade.My wife, Mary Beth, a registered nurse, works for Northcoast Community Homes, an organization involved with housing for mentally retarded and mentally ill individuals. We have 4 adult children: Terrence, a Notre Dame Law School graduate who is an attorney in Columbus with the firm of Bricker & Eckler; Michael, a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Cleveland State Law School and who will begin working at Browse McDowell law firm in Akron; Colleen, who has now completed 1 year of law school at Case Western Reserve University; and Nora, a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who is earning her M.A. in Education at the University of Dayton and who is teaching sophomore English at Dayton Chaminade-Julienne High School.

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