Byers-Emmerling to seek common pleas post

EAST LIVERPOOL — Judge Melissa Byers-Emmerling of East Liverpool Municipal Court announced Tuesday she will run for judge of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.

She is running for the seat now held by Judge David Tobin. Both are Democrats.

Judge Tobin announced late last year that he would retire in mid-2010. .

Byers-Emmerling is a graduate of Wellsville High School, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio and the University of Akron School of Law. She and her husband, Atty. Fred Emmerling have one son. She has been on the bench 21 years.