Judith Ann Lanzinger
Supreme Court of Ohio
Judith Ann Lanzinger is the only person ever elected to all four levels of Ohio’s judiciary. Now in her second Supreme Court term, over the last 29 years she has also served on the 6th District Court of Appeals, the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas and the Toledo Municipal Court. And with Joshua Lanzinger joining the municipal bench in 2013, for the first time a mother and son are serving together as state court judges.
Judith Hodorowski was the granddaughter of coal-miners and daughter of a carpenter. After grade school, believing she had a religious vocation, she joined the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, attended Lourdes Jr. College, and then taught as Sr. William Ann at St. Jude elementary school in Toledo. After leaving the order as a novice, she enrolled at the University of Toledo and received her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in education and English. She married Robert Lanzinger and started a family while continuing to teach and before earning a law degree cum laude at the University of Toledo College of Law where she was valedictorian of her class. She was named Distinguished Alumna of her alma mater in 2012.
Before taking the bench, Justice Lanzinger worked in Toledo Edison’s legal department and was a Shumaker, Loop and Kendrick associate attorney. Later, as a judge, she won scholarships to earn a master’s degree in Judicial Studies from the University of Nevada, Reno and the National Judicial College. She has been on the NJC faculty since 1990. She taught trial practice for 18 years at her former law school, as well as judicial courses throughout the U.S. and in the former Soviet Union.
The Justice Judy blog (http://justicejudy.blogspot.com) was started by the justice in 2010 to comment generally about the legal profession and the law. The blog combines her interests in technology and writing.
- Ohio
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- Justice
- Supreme Court of Ohio
- - Current
- Adjunct Professor
- University of Toledo College of Law
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- Ohio Appellate Judge
- 6th District Court of Appeals
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- Judge
- Lucas County Common Pleas Court
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- Administrative Judge 1996
- Judge
- Toledo Municipal Court
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- Attorney
- Shumaker, Loop and Kendrick
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- Attorney
- The Toledo Edison Company
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- National Judicial College and University of Nevada-Reno
- Master of Judicial Studies (1992) | Trial Judge Major
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- The University of Toledo College of Law
- J.D. (1977)
- Honors: Valedictorian
- Activities: Law Review, 1976-77
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- University of Toledo
- Bachelor of Education (1968) | English and Education
- Honors: magna cum laude, Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi Honoraries
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- Distinguished Alumna Award
- University of Toledo, College of Law
- Award for Faculty Service
- National Judicial College
- Award for Service
- Common Pleas Judges Association
- Award for Service to Judicial Education
- Ohio Judicial College
- Arabella Babb Mansfield Award
- Toledo Women's Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar
- Member
- Current
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- Ohio Courts Historical Society
- Supreme Court Liaison
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- 130th Ohio General Assembly
- Recodification Committee
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- Supreme Court of Ohio Style Manual Committee
- Chair
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- Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Rules of Superintendence
- Chair
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- Ohio Judicial College
- Chair
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- Ohio Judicial College
- Board of Trustees
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- Ohio Futures Commission
- Co-Chair of Public Education and Awareness Task Force
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- “Ethical Issues in the Law,”, National Judicial College, Ashland, Oregon
- September 29 - October 2, 2014
- "The Supreme Appeal - How to Do It", Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Toledo Bar Association
- Toledo
- Remarks, University of Toledo College of Law Alumni, Columbus
- Remarks, Jones Leadership Academy, Toledo
- “Law, Life & Literature”, Juvenile & Domestic Relations Judges Association Conference, Cincinnati
