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Judge Mark P.
Painter was elected to the Court of
Appeals in 1994 with 77% of the vote, and re-elected without
opposition since. Previously, Judge
Painter served on the Hamilton County
Municipal Court for 13 years, having
been appointed to an unexpired term in
1982. At 34, he was one of the
youngest judges ever in Hamilton
County. He was elected to a full
term in 1983 and again in 1989.
Judge Painter was a candidate for a seat
on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1992.
A Cincinnati
native, Judge Painter attended the
University of Cincinnati, where he was
elected Student Body President in
1969. He received a B.A. in 1970,
and a Juris Doctor degree in 1973.
He practiced law for nine years before
becoming a judge, mostly with a firm
that later became part of Thompson Hine.
Judge Painter
is recognized as an outstanding legal
scholar. As a municipal court
judge, he was the most-published trial
judge in the state. To date, more
than 375 of Judge Painter's decisions
have been published nationally, making
him the most-published Hamilton County
judge ever, and one of the
most-published in Ohio history.
His opinions have been cited as
precedent more than 2,500 times in legal
encyclopedias, treatises, law reviews,
and other cases.
Judge Painter is the author of Ohio
Driving Under the Influence Law (WestGroup,
now in its 17th edition), the only
textbook on DUI in Ohio, and co-author
of an extensively revised edition of Ohio
Appellate Practice
(WestGroup). He has written three
law review articles, 126 articles for
other legal journals, and Internet
biographies of Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, President and Chief Justice
William Howard Taft, and President
Warren Harding. He has written a
biography, William Howard Taft:
President and Chief Justice (Jarndyce
& Jarndyce Press).
His
book on plain legal writing, The
Legal Writer: 30 Rules for the Art of
Legal Writing (Jarndyce &
Jarndyce Press), was published in June
2002, and sold out within a year. The
Legal Writer 2nd Edition: 40 Rules for
the Art of Legal Writing was
published in 2003, and a third edition
was released in 2005. His latest
book, Write Well, came out in
2007. He writes a monthly column
on legal writing for Lawyers USA.
As an Adjunct Professor of Law at the
U.C. College of Law since 1990, Judge
Painter taught agency and partnership
for 12 years and now teaches advanced
legal writing. He was named the
Chesley Distinguished Visiting Professor
for 2008. He also teaches DUI
law, legal writing, appellate practice, and legal
ethics to judges and lawyers throughout
the country. He has lectured at more than
200 seminars for, among others, the Ohio
Judicial College, the Ohio State Bar
Association CLE Institute, Professional
Education Systems Institute, the
National Institute of Trial Advocacy,
and dozens of bar associations and law
firms.
Judge Painter has served as a
Trustee of the Cincinnati
Freestore/Foodbank, the Cincinnati Bar
Association, the Mary Jo Brueggeman
Memorial Scholarship Fund, the Friends
of the William Howard Taft Birthplace,
and the Citizens School Committee. He is
a Master of the Bench Emeritus of the
Potter Stewart Inn of Court, and served
for three years on the Ohio Supreme
Court Board of Commissioners on
Grievances and Discipline. He is a
member of the Cincinnati, American, and
Ohio State Bar Association, the American
Society of Writers on Legal Subjects
(Scribes), the Plain Language
International Network (Plain), the Legal
Writing Institute, Clarity, the
American Judicature Society, the Ohio
Historical Society, and the World Future
Society.
Judge Painter has lived in the
Clifton Heights-Fairview neighborhood of
Cincinnati for the last 43 years. Judge
Painter and
his wife, Sue Ann Painter, were married
in 1986.
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