Joseph E. Cirigliano

Joseph E. Cirigliano

Direct: (440) 930-8073

Education: Baldwin-Wallace College (B.A., 1949); Western Reserve University (LL.B., 1952).

Bar Admissions: 1952, Ohio; U.S. District Court, Northern District Court of Ohio, 1956.

Member: Lorain County, Ohio State and American Bar Associations; American Judicature Society.

Appointment: Councilman for the City of Elyria, Ohio, 1954-1958; Elyria, Ohio Civil Service Commission (former Chair), 1958-1969; Common Pleas Judge, Lorain County, 1981-1989; Ohio Judicial College Board of Trustees, 1983-1989; Law Director of North Ridgeville, Ohio, 1979; Appellate Judge, Ninth District Court of Appeals, 1989-1991; Appointed as Visiting Judge, Common Pleas Court, by Supreme Court of Ohio, 1992-2005; Lorain County Community College (Board of Trustees), 1995-present.

Teaching Experience: National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, Group Facilitator, 1983; National Conference of the Judiciary on the Rights of Victims, 1985; Adjunct Instructor in Commercial Law at Lorain County Community College, 1991-1993.

Contributor: Ohio Judges Resource Manual, 1987.

Areas of Practice: Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Available for Private Judging