|
JUDGE COLLEEN CONWAY COONEY
Judge Colleen Conway Cooney was first elected to the Eighth District Court of Appeals in 2000 and reelected in 2006. She received her B.S. degree from Western Reserve College (1978) and her J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University Law School (1981). Prior to her election, she served nine years as a Cleveland Municipal judge, eight years as an assistant prosecuting attorney for Cuyahoga County, and two years as a judicial law clerk at the Eighth District Court of Appeals for the late Judge John V. Corrigan. Judge Cooney is a past president of the William K. Thomas Inn of Court. She currently serves on the Congregation of St. Joseph Ministries Board. She was appointed to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Certification of Attorneys as Specialists and on the Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct, and has served as a member of the Judicial Advisory Group, part of the Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program, since its inception in 2006. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the Ohio Judicial Conference. In 1999, the Cleveland Bar Association named her one of "Ten Outstanding Cleveland Women in the Law," and in 2001 she was inducted into the Society of Benchers of the CWRU Law School.
|
