Meet Our Board Members
Our board volunteers provide leadership for all aspects of the Foundation including finances, awards, development, grants, and membership.
Leadership
Sarah Skow
President
Spengler Nathanson PLL
Toledo
Jonathan Hollingsworth
President-Elect
Hollingsworth & Washington
Centerville
Belinda Barnes
Immediate Past President
Gallagher, Gams,Tallan, Barnes & Littrell, LLP
Columbus
Thomas Guillozet
Treasurer
Hanes Law Group, LTD
Versailles
Trustees
Mary Amos Augsburger
OSBA CEO Serving Ex-Officio
Ohio State Bar Association
Columbus
Brandon Brown
The Goodyear Tire Rubber Co.
Hon. Carla Baldwin
Youngstown Municipal Court
Youngstown
William Cris
OSBA President-Elect
Managing Partner
Hilary Damaser
Ohio Attorney General
Columbus
R. Benjamin Franz
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Findlay
Daniel Griffith
OSBA President-Elect, Serving Ex-Officio
Huntington National Bank
North Canton
Larry Hayman
Legal Engagement & Pre-Law Program Center for Law
Ronald Kahn
Ulmer & Berne LLP
Cleveland
Michelle Kranz
OSBA President, Serving Ex-Officio
Zoll & Kranz, LLC
Toledo
Mag. Katie Lenski
Montgomery County Juvenile Court
Hon. Denise McColley
Henry County Family Court (retired)
Napoleon
Marley Nelson
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Ohio
Columbus
Mag. Joseph E. Wenger, IV
Tenth District Court of Appeals
Columbus
Merle Wilberding
Coolidge Wall
Dayton
Barbara Friedman Yaksic
Retired Attorney
Cleveland
Michele Worobiec
International Consortium for Alternatives to Incarceration (ICATI)
Past Presidents
- 2024 Belinda S. Barnes (Immediate)
- 2023 Hon. David A. Hejmanowski
- 2022 J. Kristin Burkett
- 2021 Velda Hofacker
- 2020 Mark M. Kitrick
- 2019 Robert F. Ware
- 2018 Carol Seubert Marx
- 2017 Andrew C. Storar
- 2016 Thomas P. Moushey
- 2015 Lee E. Belardo
- 2014 Stephen F. Tilson
- 2013 Thomas D. Lammers
- 2012 Heather G. Sowald
- 2011 Keith A. Ashmus
- 2010 Hon. David B. Bennett
- 2009 Stephen E. Chappelear
- 2008 Reginald S. Jackson, Jr.
- 2007 Paula L. Brooks
- 2006 Hon. Thomas F. Zachman, Ret.
- 2005 Thomas M. Taggart
- 2004 Stuart W. Cordell
- 2003 Ronald W. Dougherty
- 2002 Linden J. Beck
- 2001 Reginald W. Jackson
- 2000 Hon. Kathleen B. Burke
- 1999 Sally W. Bloomfield
- 1998 William L. Evans
- 1997 John F. Hayward
- 1996 Robert O. Hamilton
- 1995 Hon. Thomas K. Jenkins
- 1994 Hon. Edward S. Robe
- 1993 James J. Cullers
- 1992 Frank E. Bazler
- 1991 Herd Bennett
- 1990 Thomas J. Harrington
- 1989 Edward C. Redmond
- 1988 Richard D. Brooks, Jr.
- 1987 Matt Kolb
- 1986 James L. Elder
- 1985 John T. Brown
- 1984 Ret. Hon. Walter A. Porter
- 1983 Raymond P. Cunningham
- 1982 George E. Schroeder
- 1981 Sam D. Bartlo
- 1980 William Howland
- 1979 W. Bitner Browne
