{"id":39863,"date":"2018-09-19T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/?page_id=39863"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:27:37","slug":"terry-nestor-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/terry-nestor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Nestor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Office<\/strong>: Hamilton County \u2013 Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas<\/p>\n

Age<\/strong>: 50<\/p>\n

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

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

Website<\/strong>: www.terrynestor.com; Facebook:
\n@TerryNestorforJudge; Twitter: @terrynestor2018<\/p>\n

Occupation<\/strong>: Deputy City Solicitor<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>: B.A. Miami University; J.D. University of Cincinnati<\/p>\n

Work Experience<\/strong>: Trial Attorney since 1997<\/p>\n

Family<\/strong>: Married to Brigid Horne Nestor; two children<\/p>\n

Affiliations<\/strong>: University of Cincinnati adjunct professor of law;
\nCincinnati Bar Association; Catholic<\/p>\n

Endorsements<\/strong>: Hamilton County Democratic Party<\/p>\n

Bar Association Ratings<\/strong>: N\/A<\/p>\n

(1) List your judicial experience (courts and years):<\/strong>
\nFirst-time candidate.<\/p>\n

(2) What about your non-judicial legal experience qualifies you to be a<\/strong>
\njudge?<\/strong>
\nI have been a trial attorney litigating civil cases since serving as a law
\nclerk in the Hamilton County court system. I have successfully tried
\njury trial cases in Hamilton, Butler, and Clermont counties and in our
\nfederal district court. I have appeared and argued in dozens of appeal
\ncases, including in the Ohio Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court
\nof Appeals. My first job after law school was as a civil law clerk for
\nJudge John O\u2019Connor in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas.
\nI then worked as an associate attorney defending physicians, lawyers,
\nengineers, and architects in civil cases. My experience in trial includes
\ndefending wrongful death, employment discrimination, catastrophic
\ninjury, and civil rights cases. In 2003, I left the private practice of law to
\nbecome a trial attorney for the City of Cincinnati.
\nSince 2003, I have practiced in municipal law, serving as Chief Litigation
\nCounsel for the City of Cincinnati, defending the City, its officials, and
\nemployees in state and federal court. From 2014-2015 I served as the
\ninterim City Solicitor directing a public law office of over 70 employees,
\nincluding the City\u2019s prosecution, litigation, real estate, and economic
\ndevelopment divisions. In 2015, I was named the Deputy City Solicitor
\nto manage and direct the court divisions of litigation and prosecution.
\nIn a day as an assistant city solicitor, my work is as varied as defending
\ncases in a small claims court to litigating multi-million dollar cases and
\nalternative dispute resolution proceedings in both the common pleas
\ncourt and the federal district court. I have also worked on nontraditional
\nmediation proceedings involving the City\u2019s police
\ndepartment, its pension system, its health department, and its
\ninfrastructure. As an adjunct professor of law at the University of
\nCincinnati, I have the privilege to instruct second and third-year law
\nstudents about local government, trial persuasion, and advocacy.<\/p>\n

(3) Why are you running for this particular court seat?<\/strong>
\nI am running for judge to increase the legitimacy of justice in Hamilton
\nCounty. As a former law clerk and current trial practitioner, I have
\nunique insight into the quality of justice in Hamilton County. I propose
\nthree reforms that will increase the quality of justice for our citizens.
\nFirst, the court should adopt reforms that increase the depth of the jury
\npool in criminal and civil trials. Currently, the court only uses registered
\nvoters as its source for the jury roll. I believe the court should use both
\nthe registered voter list and the registered driver\u2019s license list to
\nincrease the number of people who serve on juries. Fundamentally, the
\ncourts should be about preserving the constitutional right to a jury trial
\nand assuring that all people have access to a jury of their peers.
\nSecond, the court, in cooperation with the clerk\u2019s office, should
\naggregate and make available sentencing and other court statistics to
\nmake the decisions in each courtroom more transparent. The public
\nshould have access to simple and usable sets of data that allows people
\nto understand sentencing fairness for both defendants and victims of
\ncrime. On the civil side, people should have easy access to court
\nstatistics that demonstrate the likelihood of summary dismissal, bench
\nor jury trial, and how long their case will take.
\nThird, the court and the Hamilton County jail are currently ill-equipped
\nto deal with the opioid crisis that is a daily challenge for our local
\ngovernments and first responders. Rather than repeat the current
\nsystem of \u201ccatch and release,\u201d I believe our common pleas court has a
\nrole to play in transforming Hamilton County into a \u201ccatch and cure\u201d
\njurisdiction. By partnering with existing community control models and
\ntreatment facilities, our courts should be a place to help solve the drug
\ncrisis in both our urban and suburban neighborhoods.
\nFinally, I think competition is good for our elected officials. No elected
\nofficial should be unopposed on the ballot when democracy depends on
\ndifferent ideas to get different results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Office: Hamilton County \u2013 Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas Age: 50 Residence: Cincinnati, OH Email: tanestorlaw@gmail.com Website: www.terrynestor.com; Facebook: @TerryNestorforJudge; Twitter: @terrynestor2018 Occupation: Deputy City Solicitor Education: B.A. Miami University; J.D. University of Cincinnati Work Experience: Trial Attorney since 1997 Family: Married to Brigid Horne Nestor; two children Affiliations: University of Cincinnati adjunct professor […]<\/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-39863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39863","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=39863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39863\/revisions\/39871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}