Colleen Mary OToole

Candidate Details

• Residence
  Ashtabula
• Email
  colleenotoole@icloud.com
• Website
  otooleforjudge.com
• Social Media
  
• Age
  63
• Occupation
  Elected County Prosecutor
• Education
  

  Juris Doctorate or J.D from Cleveland Marshall College of Law 

  Master of Law or LLM from Duke Law School, North Carolina.

  John Carrol University Batchelor of Arts, History, Political Science  

• Work Experience
  

  Colleen O'Toole is currently serving as the elected County Prosecutor in Ashtabula, Ohio. She is the chief law enforcement official in the County. Her office represents all 70 Ashtabula County entities and safeguards public funds. Her office Prosecutes All felonies, Appeals to Supreme Court Filings, Civil litigation concerning County Entities, and County court misdemeanors. 

  Colleen M. O'Toole served two terms (12 years)  on the Eleventh District Court of Appeals, where she was active in the Ohio Judicial Conference and many Supreme Court Commissions, Authoring over 800 Appeals. 

  Colleen also served as a judiciary member/legal expert on the Commercial Court of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department ("ADJD"). She was selected from 400 applicants as the first American and female judge to sit in the Expert Chamber Commercial Court in Abu Dhabi, UAE. During her tenure there, she adjudicated complex commercial cases and assisted the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department in developing and pioneering international common law commercial best practices throughout their legal system. She consulted with the top leadership of ADJD  to modernize and improve its procedures and practices commensurate with modern international best practices. She served on the World  Bank Doing Business Committee during her tenure there to increase the UAE's global standing on economically efficient systems favorable to international commerce. 

  She is an adjunct faculty member conducting international symposia for the Abu Dhabi Judicial Academy.

  She founded ODIS, LLC., an award-winning technology startup company that provides legal interpretation services for courts in 170 languages, including ASL, on personal and mobile devices.

• Family
  The mother of three grown children and one grandchild, Ella Loiuse.
• Affiliations
  

  O'Toole sits on multiple local boards and commissions as part of her prosecutorial responsibilities. She is a member and on the speaker's bureau of the National District Attorneys Association. She is a member and on the witness victim committee of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association. She is an active member of the American Bar Association, Judicial Division, as a lecturer, and a former Board Member of the Appellate Judges Education Institute affiliated with the National Judicial College. She presently serves on the Court Technology Committee, is a Judicial Liaison for the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Commission, Rule of Law (ROLI) Middle East North Africa Committee, Is a member of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Judges Advisory Committee, and is a Board Member of the Lake County Alliance Against Human Trafficking. 

• Endorsements
  

  Pending

• Bar Association Ratings
  

  Pending