Activities
Hancock County Community Corrections Planning Board – Member, 2010 to present
Findlay and Hancock County Domestic Violence Task Force – Member, 2012 to 2017
Boy Scouts of America, Black Swamp Area Council – Merit Badge Counselor, Troop 319
Trinity Lutheran Church – Member, 2013 – present
Hancock Leadership – Government Leadership Academy – Graduate, Class of 2011
Hancock Leadership – Graduate, Class of 2000
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Northwestern Ohio Synod Council; Past member of Executive Committee
First Lutheran Church – Member, 1998 – 2013
Fort Findlay Kiwanis Club, Findlay, OH; Past-President
St. Michael School, Findlay, OH- Past-President of P.T.C.
Camp Fire USA, Northwest Ohio Council, Inc., Findlay, OH
Professional Associations
Supreme Court of Ohio - Judicial College- Board of Trustees 2013- Present
Chair 2019 - Present
Vice-Chair 2016 - 2018
Chair, Subcommittee on Amendments to Rule V of Supreme Court Rules for Gov. of the Judiciary
Chair, Subcommittee on Amendments to Rule X of Supreme Court Rules for Gov. of the Bar (Magistrate CLE and Magistrate Orientation Program)
Chair, Subcommittee on Rule IV of Supreme Court Rules for Gov. of the Judiciary (New Judge Orientation)
Instructor on topics including: Contempt powers for Judges and Magistrates; Misdemeanor sentencing; Protection orders; Unauthorized practice of law in Small Claims Court and Landlord/Tenant cases; and Evidence/expert witnesses.
Ohio Judicial Conference – Member, 2010 to present.
Traffic Law & Procedure Committee - Co-Chair
Criminal Law & Procedure Committee
Civil Law & Procedure Committee
Magistrates Committee
Ohio Common Pleas Judges’ Association – Member, 2017 to present
Association of Municipal and County Judges of Ohio – Member, 2010 through February 2017
Board of Trustees - At-Large Trustee - February 2016 through February 2017
Ohio Association of Magistrates – Member, 2000 – 2009
President, 2006-2007
Board of Trustees, 2003 - 2009
Ohio Jail Advisory Board – Member, 2014 to present
Findlay/Hancock County Bar Associations – Member, 1994 to present
Ohio State Bar Association – Member, 1993 to Present
American Bar Association – Member, 2013 to present