HELP STARK COUNTIANS BECOME MORE INFORMED ON THE QUALITIES OF STARK COUNTY'S JUDGES. TAKE (ANONYMOUSLY) STARK COUNTY POLITICAL REPORT 10 QUESTION SURVEY

On Sunday, yours truly viewed a program on public television station WVIZ (Channel 25) from Cleveland put on by the Cleveland City Club about the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Task Force for Judicial Excellence.

Here is the articulated mission of the task force:

"The task force is charged with conducting careful, thoughtful research and investigation in order to address the problems in the judicial selection process. The commitment of both chairmen stresses that the vital importance of having the best judges on the bench supersedes politics."

Much of the discussion on Sunday's program was the inability of the voting public to know much about judges.  

Yours truly, being a Stark County based lawyer for nearly 37 years now, knows all the trial judges who serve Stark County.  So knowing who deserves to be on the bench and who does not is not a problem.

Stark trial judges include the following:

• Judge Charles E. Brown, Jr. (Stark County Common Pleas)
• Judge Frank Forchione (Stark County Common Pleas)
• Judge John Haas (Stark County Common Pleas)
• Judge Taryn Heath (Stark County Common Pleas)
• Judge Lee Sinclair (Stark County Common Pleas)
• Judge Jim James (Stark County Common Pleas - Domestic Relations)
• Judge Michael Howard (Stark County Common Pleas - Domestic Relations)
• Judge David Stucki (Stark County Common Pleas - Domestic Relations)
• Judge Stephen Belden (Canton Municipal Court)
• Judge Mary Falvey (Canton Municipal Court)
• Judge Richard Kubilus (Canton Municipal Court)
• Judge John Poulos (Canton Municipal Court)
• Judge Robert Lavery (Alliance Municipal Court)
• Judge C. Roland Centrone (Massillon Municipal Court)
• Judge Edward Elum (Massillon Municipal Court)

However, for most Stark Countians it is.  Accordingly, the SCPR has developed a 10 question survey for those who have experience either as a lawyer, litigant or merely a courtroom observer to take the results of which could be an enormous help to the voting Stark County public in making an informed decision of whom to vote for (the incumbent judge or a challenger) when a given judge comes up for election.

For those readers of the SCPR who have experience with the courts and the judges who sit in judgment on all of us to take the survey so that the Stark County voting public has a resource to know whom to support as elections for judges come up.


CLICK TO TAKE THE SURVEY - THE SCPR JUDICIAL SURVEY