Sat Jul 31 2010
by Mike Lesko
Stow Sentry Associate Editor
Stow -- Stow Municipal Court Judge Lisa Coates will face Assistant Ohio Attorney General Adam VanHo of Cuyahoga Falls in the Nov. 3 judicial general election.
The filing deadline with the Summit County Board of Elections for the court was Sept. 8. Judicial terms are six years.
Coates graduated from Tuscarawas Valley High School in Tuscarawas County and the Case Western Reserve School of Law.
After a short time at a civil law firm, she started as an Assistant Summit County Prosecutor in the Criminal Division.
Coates was appointed to Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court in March 2003 and still presides as a judge at the Stow Municipal Court, which opened in January 2009.
Coates, her husband and three children live in Hudson.
VanHo was born in Cleveland, and graduated Euclid High School and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. He attended the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.
After law school, VanHo worked in the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office, and then in the Summit County Prosecutor's Office.
He joined the Ohio Attorney General's Office in 2007, where he was a member of the Child and Elder Protection Unit and Special Prosecutions Section.
The municipal court serves 16 communities including Boston Heights, Boston Township, Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Macedonia, Munroe Falls, Northfield Center, Northfield Village, Peninsula, Reminderville, Sagamore Hills, Silver Lake, Stow, Tallmadge, Twinsburg and Twinsburg Township.
E-mail: mlesko@recordpub.com
Phone: 330-686-3917
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