Former 11th District judge O'Neill running for Supreme Court

CLEVELAND

Former District Court of Appeals Judge William Michael O’Neill announced his candidacy for the Supreme Court of Ohio.

O’Neill, 64, retired from the 11th District Court of Appeals where he served from 1997 to 2007, including two terms as presiding judge. He was elected to the court of appeals in 1996 and re-elected in 2002.

Judge O’Neill graduated from Ohio University and Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army and was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Vietnam. He works as a pediatric emergency- room nurse and has four grown children.