KJK Partner Maribeth Meluch Named to Public Defender Commission – KJK

By Joshua Keeran | The Delaware Gazette

The judges of the Courtroom of Prevalent Pleas of Delaware County have appointed Maribeth Meluch, of Delaware County, to a four-yr phrase on the county’s Public Defender Commission.

Meluch is a associate at the law company of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. She is a former justice of the peace, who has familiarity with the court docket system and the role of public defenders. Meluch has earlier served on the fee through the period preceding a whole-time community defender.

Meluch is a Delaware County resident and a member of the Delaware County Bar Affiliation. She is also energetic in the Huge Walnut/Galena Rotary Club. Meluch is a member of the Delaware Location Chamber of Commerce and Sunbury/Huge Walnut Chamber of Commerce.

Presiding Choose Randall D. Fuller claimed, “Attorney Meluch will make an great addition to the Community Defender Commission, and I know she is on the lookout forward to beginning her new responsibilities in Oct.”

The Public Defender Fee appoints the county general public defender and establishes the qualifications and dimension of the supporting personnel and amenities and other needs wanted to maintain and run the business. Between other duties, the fee endorses an once-a-year functioning finances to the county commissioners. The general public defender represents grown ups and juveniles who are indigent and billed with an offense which hazards potential reduction of liberty.

Ohio law presents that two of the 5 users of the county’s Public Defender Commission are appointed by the judges of the Court docket of Popular Pleas with the equilibrium appointed by the county commissioners.

Go through the authentic report, as released by The Delaware Gazette, below.