11th DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS

Four candidates are running for two seats on the court. An * denotes the incumbent.

TIMOTHY CANNON*

Age: 59

Address: 1714 W. Jackson St. Painesville.

Employment: Incumbent, presiding-administrative judge.

Experience: Practiced law for 27 years; as a judge, given many assignments by the Ohio Supreme Court, including sitting as a visiting judge twice; chairman of Advisory Committee on Case Management; sat in five other appellate districts; requested by the Supreme Court to lecture to the newly elected appellate judges for last two sessions; 100 percent affirmative vote from Lake County Bar Association.

Education: St. Joseph High School, 1973; John Carroll University, 1977; CSU John Marshall College of Law, 1980.

Family: Wife, Lisa; son, Geoff, daughter, Sarah.

Priority: To dispose of cases in a timely manner.

RON TAMBURRINO

Cannon’s opponent; did not return a survey form.

CYNTHIA RICE*

Age: 56

Address: 7428 Warren- Sharon Road, Brookfield.

Employment: Incumbent judge.

Experience: Authored more than 1,000 appellate opinions and decided more than 3,000 appellate cases; served as a visiting judge on the Ohio Supreme Court, also the second, seventh and ninth district courts of appeals; on Ohio Judicial Conference Executive Committee; co-chairwoman of the Ohio Judicial Conference’s Criminal Law and Procedure Committee and on the Appellate Procedure Committee; appointed in 2012 to the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee for Courthouse Security; former assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio as a member of the General Crimes Division; first assistant criminal prosecutor in Trumbull County; responsible for overseeing all felony criminal prosecutions and was trial counsel on major criminal cases, including capital murder, murder and rape cases.

Education: University of Akron School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1985; Purdue University, B.S. Management, 1980.

Family: Husband, Ronald J. Rice; children Tyler Westcott Rice, Madison Westcott Rice, Morgan Westcott Rice.

Priority: Efficient case management.

GEOFFREY WEAVER

Age: 49

Address: 7554 Chardon Road, Kirtland

Employment: The Weaver Law Firm, general practice attorney with office in Mentor.

Experience: Twenty-three years’ broad-based experience and a background of community service for the homeless, churches and those less fortunate.

Education: DePauw University, B.A. political science and philosophy, 1987; Columbia University, graduate studies in political science, 1987-88; New York University School of Law, J.D., 1991.

Family: Children, Jessica, Alexander.

Priority: Timely issuance of decisions.