Judge receives judicial award

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Neighbors | Submitted .Ohio Association of Magistrates administrator, Mark Huberman, presented Judge Anthony D’Apolito with the 2017 Judicial Award.

At the 2017 Fall Conference of the Ohio Association of Magistrates on Sept. 29, Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Anthony D’Apolito was one of three former magistrates, now judges, to receive the prestigious OAM Judicial Award for 2017.

The award, which is presented annually to no more than three judges in the State of Ohio, recognizes magistrates who have gone on to be elected judges and who continue to be strongly supportive of the cause of magistrates and judicial education.

Judge D’Apolito previously served more than 10 years as a Magistrate and Court Administrator of the Mahoning County Juvenile Court before being elected to the bench in November 2017. The award was presented to Judge D’Apolito by OAM Administrator Mark Huberman, himself a former magistrate of both the Mahoning County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts.

The other recipients of the 2017 Judicial Award were Judge Penelope Cunningham of the First District Court of Appeals and Judge Tonya Jones of the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court. The OAM represents more than 600 Magistrates in the State of Ohio and is the primary provider of their continuing education.