{"id":39707,"date":"2018-09-19T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/?page_id=39707"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:27:56","slug":"stephen-l-mcintosh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/stephen-l-mcintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen L. McIntosh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Office<\/strong>: Franklin County \u2013 Common Pleas Court General Division<\/p>\n

Age<\/strong>: 60<\/p>\n

Residence<\/strong>: Gahanna, OH<\/p>\n

Email<\/strong>: reelectjudgemcintosh@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Website<\/strong>: N\/A<\/p>\n

Occupation<\/strong>: Judge<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>: JD Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
\nWork Experience: 5\/84-6\/86 Columbus City Attorney Of\u00d7ce Assistant
\nCity Prosecutor; 6\/86-1\/91 Secretary of State Sherrod Brown Deputy
\nDirector UCC Div; 1\/91-2\/97 Crabbe Brown Jones Potts & Schmidt
\n(now Crabbe Brown James) Associate; 2\/97-1\/08 Columbus City
\nAttorney Of\u00d7ce Chief Prosecutor; 1\/08 to present Franklin County
\nCourt of Common Pleas Judge<\/p>\n

Family<\/strong>: Married Three Children<\/p>\n

Affiliations<\/strong>: Columbus Bar Association Past President, Ohio State Bar
\nAssociation former Board Member, John Mercer Langston Bar
\nAssociation, Chair Supreme Court Task Force to Examine
\nImprovements to the Ohio Grand Jury System, Vice Chair Joint Task
\nForce to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty in Ohio, Past
\nChair Alvis, Board Member Gahanna Y, Member Ohio Sentencing
\nCommission, Past Chair Supreme Court CLE Commission, Past Member
\nYMCA Race Relation Vision Council, Past Member Supreme Court
\nAdvisory Committee on Dispute Resolution, 15 years Legal Advisor
\nMarion Franklin Mock Trial Team, Deacon Second Baptist Church, Past
\nMember Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Interpreter Services<\/p>\n

Endorsements<\/strong>: Stonewall Democrats of Central Ohio<\/p>\n

Bar Association Ratings<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.cbalaw.org\/CBA_PROD\/Main\/Resources\/Resourc
\nes_for_the_Public\/Judicial_Election_Information\/Main\/Resources\/Publi
\nc\/Judicial-Elections.aspx?hkey=6ea76aec-ed44-4539-b581-
\nb24b77b8dbc0<\/p>\n

(1) List your judicial experience (courts and years):<\/strong>
\nJanuary 8, 2008 to present Franklin County Court of Common Pleas
\nGeneral Division<\/p>\n

(2) What about your non-judicial legal experience qualifies you to be a<\/strong>
\njudge?<\/strong>
\nWhen I was practicing law I had the opportunity to work as a
\nprosecutor, a criminal defense lawyer, civil defense and civil plaintiff
\nattorney. As a prosecutor I got to understand the difficulty experience
\nby victims moving through the system and worked hard not to victimize
\nthem a second time when dealing with their case. As a criminal defense
\nattorney I represented defendants and was able to understand how
\nintimidating and confusing it was for many of them to be in the
\n\u201csystem.\u201d It was my responsibility to ensure that their rights were
\nprotected and to provide them information in a way that allowed them
\nto make an informed decision on how to resolve their case.
\nIn civil litigation I am under the pressures and stresses associated with
\ndefending a case when a suit has been filed against a person or
\ncompany as well pursuing a case in which a person believes they were
\nwronged by an individual or company. Of course, understanding the law
\nin all of these areas from a practical stand point before I took the bench
\nhelped me tremendously. However, experiencing the many sides
\ninvolved in litigation helped me to understand that legal system is all
\nabout people. We as attorneys and judges are dealing with people in
\nsome of the most stressful times in their lives and it is our responsibility
\nto make sure win or lose, the system worked.<\/p>\n

(3) Why are you running for this particular court seat?<\/strong>
\nIn The Common Pleas Court we deal with some of the worst crimes
\nthat can be committed by a person. We also deal with people because
\nof their situation or circumstances commit crimes. The former group of
\ncriminals as a judge I need to decide an appropriate prison sentence to
\nprotect the public. The latter group as a judge I need to figure out the
\nappropriate treatment, programs or classes that provide them the skills
\nand tools to keep them from returning to the criminal justice system. In
\nboth situations justice is served.
\nIn civil litigation we deal with cases in which the amount in controversy
\ncan be in the millions of dollars whether it involves the death of a family
\nmember because of the negligence of a person or company or a
\nbusiness dispute. Whether the case is large or small they are all\u00a0important and require a judge to take every case seriously. When I was
\nelected judge in 2007 I made a commitment to be the type of judge who
\nwhen people walked out of my courtroom whether they won or loss,
\ngot what they wanted or not that they felt the system worked. I have
\ntried to do that for the 11 1\/2 years I have been on the bench. When
\nelected because I knew I would be sending people to prison I visited
\nseveral prisons in the state to see the type of programming that would
\nbe available for persons I would send there. For the last several years I
\nhave been the drug court judge for the common pleas court all in a
\neffort to try to make a difference in the lives of those coming through
\nour court system. It is for all of the reasons that I have provided that I
\nam running again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Office: Franklin County \u2013 Common Pleas Court General Division Age: 60 Residence: Gahanna, OH Email: reelectjudgemcintosh@gmail.com Website: N\/A Occupation: Judge Education: JD Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Work Experience: 5\/84-6\/86 Columbus City Attorney Of\u00d7ce Assistant City Prosecutor; 6\/86-1\/91 Secretary of State Sherrod Brown Deputy Director UCC Div; 1\/91-2\/97 Crabbe Brown Jones Potts & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3619,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-39707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39707\/revisions\/39711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}