{"id":52603,"date":"2020-02-21T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/?p=52603"},"modified":"2020-08-18T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T18:49:41","slug":"richard-s-skelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/richard-s-skelton\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard S. Skelton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"post-content-left\">\n<h4><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;color: #191e23\">Office:&nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: #191e23\">For Judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, General Division<br \/>Term Beginning 1\/3\/2021<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:&nbsp;<\/strong>66<\/p>\n<p><strong>Residence:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oakwood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:Richard.Skelton@montcourt.oh.gov\">Richard.Skelton@montcourt.oh.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:&nbsp;<\/strong>n\/a<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Occupation:&nbsp;<\/strong>Judge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:&nbsp;<\/strong>JD, University of Dayton<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work Experience:&nbsp;<\/strong>Trial attorney from 1988 to 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family:&nbsp;<\/strong>Engaged<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliations:&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>Ohio Bar Association; Dayton Bar Association<\/p>\n<p><strong>Endorsements:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bar Association Ratings:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"post-content-right\">\n<p><strong>(1) List your judicial experience (courts and years)<\/strong><br \/>Full time Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge starting in January of 2015 to present.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) What about your non-judicial legal experience qualifies you to be a judge?<\/strong><br \/>My private practice focused on the very types of cases most often filed in the Common Pleas Court, to wit: Felonies and Tort Civil Litigation. I received the highest ethical rating by the top lawyer ranking entity in the United States, Martindale Hubbell. I have been a problem solver my entire career and have a reputation as a litigator that can see both sides of a dispute. When I ran for election in 2014, I received multiple endorsements from police agencies &#8211; not common for an attorney who practiced a significant amount of criminal defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) Why are you running for this particular court seat?<\/strong><br \/>I have been hands on working with low level felony offenders. I have utilized efforts to help defendants and felons employment as I believe that is one of the most important stepping stones toward rehabilitation. I am dedicated to serving the community that I have lived in my entire life. I am proud of Montgomery County, Ohio and will work hard to make it a better place to live.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office:&nbsp;For Judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, General DivisionTerm Beginning 1\/3\/2021 Age:&nbsp;66 Residence:&nbsp;Oakwood Email:&nbsp;Richard.Skelton@montcourt.oh.gov Website:&nbsp;n\/a Social Media:&nbsp; Occupation:&nbsp;Judge Education:&nbsp;JD, University of Dayton Work Experience:&nbsp;Trial attorney from 1988 to 2015 Family:&nbsp;Engaged Affiliations:&nbsp;Ohio Bar Association; Dayton Bar Association Endorsements:&nbsp; Bar Association Ratings:&nbsp; (1) List your judicial experience (courts and years)Full time Montgomery County Common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52603\/revisions\/58283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/judicialvotescount\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}