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MILESTONES
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Ciolli earns doctorate
Christopher J. Ciolli, a graduate of Austintown Fitch High School, recently received a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1999 from Youngstown State University.
He is currently a senior process scientist at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago, where he lives with his wife, Kathleen, and daughter, Elena.
Ciolli is the son of John and Lynda Ciolli, originally of Austintown.
HONORS
Huberman re-elected
Atty. Mark Huberman, chief magistrate of the Mahoning County Domestic Relations Court under Judge Beth Smith, was recently re-elected to a second term as president of the 470-member Ohio Association of Magistrates.
Huberman was one of 38 charter members of the association, which was founded in 1989 to advance the education and interests of magistrates.
Huberman has served on the OAM trustee board since 1991. During his tenure, the association has experienced tremendous growth and is now the state's largest judicial association.
Huberman has practiced law in Mahoning County for more than 27 years.
From 1987 to 1997, he served as a part-time referee/magistrate of Mahoning County Juvenile Court and for the past seven years he has served as full-time chief magistrate of the domestic relations court.
He served as a 20-year member of the Boardman Board of Education.
Huberman also has served in leadership capacities for a variety of community organizations.
He is married to the former Wanda Fowler.
Their children are Heather, 22, a student at Youngstown State University, and Lisa, 19, a student at Bradley University.
Local children win contest
Two Mahoning County children took two of the top three places in the Imagine Engineering Coloring Contest sponsored by Engineers Foundation of Ohio, a subsidiary of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers.
The first-place winner is Victor Scott from New Middletown, where he attends Springfield Local Elementary School.
Third place goes to Megan Banks of Boardman, a second-grader at St. Charles School, Boardman.
The contest helps teach thousands of children about engineering and was open to children in the second grade.
Local chapters of the state submit the three best pictures from their chapter to the state.
There are 19 local chapters in the state.
The Mahoning Valley chapter represents professional engineers in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
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