Mon Feb 13 2012
Lake County Common Pleas Judge Eugene A. Lucci has announced he will run for the 11th District Court of Appeals seat now held by Judge Colleen O'Toole.
They will face off in the Republican primary election on May 4. The 11th District consists of Lake, Trumbull, Portage, Ashtabula, and Geauga counties.
Lucci, 55, of Concord Township in Lake County, has been a Lake County Common Pleas judge for 10 years, is the most senior judge on that bench, is the current administrative judge and served last year as presiding judge.
Prior to his election to the common pleas bench in 2000, Lucci was a practicing trial attorney for 20 years, during which he served as an acting judge on the Painesville and Mentor municipal courts for 12 years.
Lucci also served as a full-time Painesville city police officer for six years and a special detective for the Lake County Sheriff's Office for five years.
Admitted to the bar in 1980 after graduating from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Lucci served as president of the Lake County Bar Association in 1989. Lucci is a 1972 graduate of Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown, and completed his bachelor of arts degree at Case Western Reserve University in December 1975.
If elected, Lucci said he will become the only judge on the court of appeals who has actually presided over a jury trial or sentenced a criminal offender.
None of the current five judges of the court of appeals ever served as a trial judge.
On his appellate aspirations, Lucci pledges, "I will timely vote on each case and let the parties, the trial judge, other courts, and the public know why I voted the way I did. I will not 'concur in judgment only' or 'dissent' without writing an opinion. I will cooperate and work with the other judges on the court to produce the finest product the court of appeals can."
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