Judge Cynthia Westcott Rice, one of five judges who sit on the 11th District Court of Appeals in Warren, has been named co-chair of the Criminal Law & Procedure Committee of the Ohio Judicial Conference.
The 11th District Court of Appeals hears appeals of cases decided in Portage, Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake and Trumbull counties. Rice, a resident of Brookfield in Trumbull County, began a two-year term on the committee starting Jan. 1, the OJC announced Thursday.
A graduate of the University of Akron School of Law and a former assistant Trumbull County prosecutor and former assistant U.S. Attorney, Rice was first elected to the appeals court in November 2002 and re-elected in November 2008.
The jurisdiction of the 11th District Court of Appeals includes Portage County.
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