Maureen Cronin Bio

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Former Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Maureen A. Cronin

July 1988: Selected by then-Mayor Patrick Ungaro as city prosecutor, Cronin, then 34, becomes the first woman to have that position in Youngstown.

February 1994: Announces run for a county common pleas court judicial seat.

November 1994: Wins the general election for the six-year judicial position, beating an incumbent. She becomes the first woman elected to the court of common pleas in Mahoning County.

November 2000: Re-elected to a second six-year term.

April 2005: Found guilty of operating a vehicle while impaired.

November 2006: Elected to a third six-year term.

July 2007: Resigns her judicial position.

September 2007: Convicted of a second OVI. She is placed on one-year probation, 18 days of house arrest and ordered to serve five days in jail.

December 2009: Pleads guilty to two federal felony counts of “honest services mail fraud.” She’s accused of taking an $18,000 “loan” from an unidentified “senior executive of a business with multiple cases pending before” her and concealing it.

Today: To be sentenced at noon by U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi in Akron.