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Board

OLAF has a diverse group of trustees from various areas of the state who are committed to improving access to justice.

The OLAF staff also brings considerable skills and talent to OLAF's mission.

Current Board Members

• Julie Davis
  Executive Vice President & General Counsel
  Retail Ventures, Inc., Columbus

• The Honorable Stanley J. Aronoff
  Former Ohio Senate President
  State Street Consultants, Columbus

• Sally Bloomfield, Esq.
  Partner, Bricker & Eckler, Columbus

• Steven R. Buchenroth, Esq.
  Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Columbus

• Kathleen B. Burke, Esq.
  Director, Ohio Lottery Commission, Cleveland

• Jack R. Christopher
  Former Majority Legal Counsel, House of Representatives, Columbus

• The Honorable Richard Cordray
  Ohio Attorney General, State of Ohio, Columbus

• Michael Deemer
  Governor's Policy Team, State of Ohio, Columbus

• William D. Dowling, Esq.
  Shareholder, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP, Akron

• Bill Faith
  Executive Director, Coalition on
  Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, Columbus

• H. Ritchey Hollenbaugh, Esq.
  Carlile, Patchen & Murphy LLP, Columbus

• James J. Johnson
  Retired, Chief Legal Officer
  Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati

• Sharon Sobol Jordan
  Chief Executive Officer
  Center for Families & Children, Cleveland

• John B. Keane
  Senior Vice President & General Counsel
  American Electric Power

• The Honorable William A. Klatt
  Judge, Tenth District Court of Appeals, Columbus

• Gary J. Leppla
  Partner, Leppla Associates, Dayton

• Janet Green Marbley
  Administrator, Client's Security Funds
  Supreme Court of Ohio, Columbus

• Joseph L. Mas, Esq.
  Attorney At Law
  330 Lawyers Group, Columbus

• Michael H. Mearan, Esq.
  Attorney at Law, Portsmouth

• The Honorable James Petro
  Former State Auditor and Attorney General
  Roetzel & Andress, Columbus

• Richard W. Pogue, Esq.
  Jones Day, Cleveland

• Kimberly C. Shumate
  Associate Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs
  The Ohio State University, Columbus

• Steven H. Steinglass
  Dean Emeritus
  Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
  Cleveland State University, Cleveland

• Thomas C. Stevens
  Vice Chairman & Chief Administrative Officer
  KeyCorp, Cleveland

• David C. Weiner, Esq.
  Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland

Emeritus

• Thomas Chema
  President, Hiram College, Hiram

• Frederick L. Oremus, Esq.
  Eslocker & Oremus Co., Athens

• Samuel H. Porter, Esq.
  Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Columbus

Ex Officio

• Mary Asbury
  Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of
  Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati

• Richard A. Dove
  Assistant Administrative Director,
  Supreme Court of Ohio, Columbus

• William K. Weisenberg
  Assistant Executive Director for
  Public Affairs and Government Relations
  Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus

• John Alge
  Director of Adminstration,
  Office of Ohio Public Defender