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ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS
    Supreme Court of Ohio.
    December 18, 2018
    CONTINUING-LEGAL-EDUCATION MATTERS
    Gov.Bar R. X(3) requires all attorneys admitted to the practice of law in Ohio and each attorney registered for corporate status pursuant to Gov.Bar R. VI to complete at least 24 hours of continuing legal education ("CLE"), including two and a half hours related to professional conduct, for each two-year compliance period. Gov.Bar R. X(4) requires attorneys whose last names begin with a letter from A through L to complete the CLE requirements of Gov.Bar R. X on or before December 31 of each odd-numbered year. Gov.Bar R. X(18)(A) provides that an attorney or judge who fails to comply timely with the applicable requirements of Gov.Bar R. X or Gov.Jud.R. IV but does so within 90 days of the December 31 deadline shall be assessed a late fee in accordance with CLE Reg. 503. Gov.Bar R. X(18)(B) provides that an attorney or judge who fails to comply with the applicable requirements of Gov.Bar R. X or Gov.Jud.R. IV shall be notified of noncompliance by the Commission on Continuing Legal Education and that unless the attorney or judge comes into compliance or files evidence of compliance that is satisfactory to the commission on or before the date set forth in the notice, the commission shall issue an order imposing a sanction authorized by Gov.Bar R. X(17) and consistent with CLE Reg. 503.
    On December 14, 2018, the commission sanctioned 248 attorneys for noncompliance with the provisions of Gov.Bar R. X. The following attorneys were issued a monetary sanction for not completing the educational hours required by Gov.Bar R. X(3) and not filing evidence of compliance or coming into compliance as required by Gov.Bar R. X(18)(A). The sanction amount displayed in the last column is based on the number and the type of hour deficiency.
       Name   Attorney Number   County   State   Amount     Joseph Anthony Benavidez   0042447   Allen   OH   $ 75.00     Brian Joseph Halligan   0024113   Ashland   OH   $300.00     Randy Dean Gossett   0016655   Belmont   OH   $225.00     Catherine Adams   0023480   Brown   OH   $150.00     Ira Myron Berman   0008636   Butler   OH   $300.00     Norbert Mark Doellman Jr.   0002122   Butler   OH   $225.00     Karl Frederick Kilguss   0084449   Butler   OH   $300.00     James Allen Berry   0024082   Clark   OH   $150.00     Jessica Loomis Shockley Kimes   0077198   Clark   OH   $225.00     David Lee Huprich   0025067   Clermont   OH   $225.00     Heather Dawn Walsh   0080366   Clermont   OH   $300.00     Scott Emerson Allbery   0039137   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Theodore Alexander Amata   0065658   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Michael Branch Aten Jr.   0083386   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Joseph Bancsi   0025450   Cuyahoga   OH   $150.00     Douglas Verne Bartman   0073103   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Autumn Basil   0065790   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Stanley Bennett   0010238   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Robert Jerome Berk   0001031   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Karl Stephen Beus   0059931   Cuyahoga   OH   $150.00     Evan McKee Bishop   0090950   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Jason Collier Blackford   0017481   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Alexis Catherine Bomback   0089002   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Robert Chester Brooks II   0040881   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Charles Steven Butler   0024316   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Emil Joseph Centa   0031080   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Thomas David Corrigan   0022810   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Ben Thompson Davies   0091082   Cuyahoga   OH   $150.00     Liam Joseph Dunn   0092488   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Leon Ray Ferraez Jr.   0092844   Cuyahoga   OH   $150.00     John Joseph Gill   0024028   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Bradley Scot Glazer   0027619   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Timothy Paul Haffey   0041438   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Jason Patrick Hager   0075849   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Katherine M. Haka   0044024   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Gladys Elaine Harrison   0016051   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Alan Neil Hirth   0021953   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Elissa Louise Hopson   0083174   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Nathan John Hudak   0081666   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     Teresa James   0031671   Cuyahoga   OH   $ 75.00     David James Janco   0041358   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Adam Phillip Jason   0087391   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Andrew Lee Johnson Jr.   0010004   Cuyahoga   OH   $150.00     Jessica Anne Kaiser   0085843   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     David Anthony Kemme   0012389   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Steven Brian Koblentz   0019355   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Peter Joseph Krembs   0024871   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Paul Emory Larson   0069636   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Esther Oakalee Carr Lester   0041547   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Gary Howard Levine   0025993   Cuyahoga   OH   $150.00     Dustin Scott Lewis   0082686   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Robert Lee Lewis   0022253   Cuyahoga   OH   $150.00     Marie Elizabeth Ballou   0043902   Delaware   OH   $300.00     Sean Patrick Costello   0068612   Delaware   OH   $300.00     James Henry Klein   0006857   Delaware   OH   $ 75.00     Michael Ray Baker   0039646   Erie   OH   $150.00     Ronald J. James   0024674   Erie   OH   $225.00     Dale Robert England Jr.   0017053   Fairfield   OH   $300.00     David Charles Ahlstrom   0085784   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Christopher Joseph Allwein   0084914   Franklin   OH   $ 75.00     James Edward Betts   0010960   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Robert Nathaniel Black Jr.   0019343   Franklin   OH   $150.00     James Richard Brown   0063295   Franklin   OH   $150.00     Thomas Jay Brown Jr.   0012209   Franklin   OH   $225.00     Robert Thomas Burda   0011917   Franklin   OH   $150.00     Jack C. Butler   0024463   Franklin   OH   $ 75.00     Melinda Dianne Carter   0042590   Franklin   OH   $ 75.00     Geneva Gaither Cleamons   0031095   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Kelly Katherine Curtis   0079285   Franklin   OH   $225.00     Colin Michael Daly   0088614   Franklin   OH   $150.00     Adam Peter Demko   0080083   Franklin   OH   $ 75.00     James Phillip Dinsmore   0051798   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Kevin Daniel Dunn   0088333   Franklin   OH   $150.00     Marcus David Dunn   0062732   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Xavier Brian Edwards   0084293   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Fredrick Lee Fisher   0032434   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Jackalynne Ann Fletcher   0064380   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Gregory Alan Goetz   0090356   Franklin   OH   $225.00     Sara Allyn Hall   0092696   Franklin   OH   $300.00     William Mayne Hayden   0004942   Franklin   OH   $225.00     Eric Michael Hedrick   0083207   Franklin   OH   $150.00     John Folger Hilt Jr.   0029132   Franklin   OH   $150.00     James M. Hoffmann   0074856   Franklin   OH   $150.00     Nicholas Andrew Horn   0092096   Franklin   OH   $150.00     Kristi Ming-ing Hsu   0089582   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Brian Edward Huggins   0091683   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Kelli Nicole Hughes   0088518   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Jeffrey Dwight Hunter   0061364   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Alexander Stephen Kocsis   0024908   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Howard Paul Lowe   0034295   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Jeffrey Karl Lucas   0074504   Franklin   OH   $150.00     Jonathan David Adee   0069082   Hamilton   OH   $225.00     Tracy Baffour Agyemang   0096235   Hamilton   OH   $150.00     Stanley Jerome Aronoff   0011694   Hamilton   OH   $ 75.00     Caleb Brown Jr.   0020678   Hamilton   OH   $ 75.00     Debra Kay Crane   0066729   Hamilton   OH   $ 75.00     Mary Theresa Foster   0081729   Hamilton   OH   $300.00     Harold Sol Freeman   0012709   Hamilton   OH   $150.00     Donald Francis Frei   0002190   Hamilton   OH   $150.00     Jerome Janson Grogan   0076029   Hamilton   OH   $ 75.00     James Albert Higgins   0021127   Hamilton   OH   $ 75.00     Lawrence Knight Hoyt   0037759   Hamilton   OH   $300.00     Mary Jill Brewster Hugan   0074457   Hamilton   OH   $225.00     Todd Maurice Immell   0069047   Hamilton   OH   $225.00     Jill Elizabeth Jakab   0008599   Hamilton   OH   $300.00     Jessie Hanson LeMasters   0077914   Hamilton   OH   $225.00     Nancy Hampton Ludwig   0077952   Hamilton   OH   $300.00     Heather Nicole Keesee   0086873   Hocking   OH   $300.00     Richard Craig Andrews   0009537   Lake   OH   $300.00     Paul Brickner   0026246   Lake   OH   $150.00     Karl William Hauber   0073661   Lake   OH   $300.00     Karen Lynn Hummel   0088982   Lake   OH   $ 75.00     Alfred Vincent Lucas   0027737   Lake   OH   $ 75.00     John David Birmingham   0044009   Lucas   OH   $300.00     Thomas Gene French   0076643   Lucas   OH   $225.00     William Edwin Higley II   0041761   Lucas   OH   $300.00     Christopher Lee Killion   0074029   Lucas   OH   $300.00     Terrence Franklin Cloonan   0017262   Mahoning   OH   $ 75.00     Donald Patrick Leone   0000154   Mahoning   OH   $ 75.00     Daryl Edward Kowalski   0089611   Medina   OH   $300.00     John Adams Cervay   0014398   Montgomery   OH   $225.00     Christopher Brady Coulles   0089783   Montgomery   OH   $ 75.00     David Joseph Cranmer   0038667   Montgomery   OH   $150.00     Timothy James Dawe   0046954   Montgomery   OH   $300.00     David Matthew Federico   0091163   Montgomery   OH   $150.00     Gregory Patrick Garner   0039111   Montgomery   OH   $300.00     Caitlin Elizabeth Lanning   0090718   Montgomery   OH   $ 75.00     Michael Richard Bassett   0079591   Ottawa   OH   $150.00     Charles Ray Burns   0051963   Ottawa   OH   $225.00     Errol Anthony Can   0058590   Portage   OH   $300.00     Duane Lynn Doyle   0034042   Portage   OH   $150.00     Doston B. Jones   0084195   Portage   OH   $300.00     Richard Vincent Friedmann   0069038   Seneca   OH   $300.00     Paul Michael Kelley   0088148   Stark   OH   $225.00     Colleen Marie Bonk   0067165   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     Melissa Renea Cox   0071461   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     Laura A. DiCola   0039547   Summit   OH   $300.00     Michael David Esposito   0077221   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     Donald Bryan Ferfolia Jr.   0082049   Summit   OH   $225.00     Bruce Richard Freedman   0023864   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     Ruth Ann Gibson   0004701   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     Jeffery Allen Kaleda   0069149   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     John Peter Lazar   0009760   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     Douglas Glenn Leak   0045554   Summit   OH   $ 75.00     James Martin Brutz   0011144   Trumbull   OH   $ 75.00     Susan Stanton Katz   0008893   Trumbull   OH   $300.00     Garry Owen Hurless   0081611   Tuscarawas   OH   $150.00     William George Fowler   0005254   Warren   OH   $ 75.00     Andrew Paul George   0071311   Warren   OH   $150.00     Joan Alice Maria Gibson   0040148    AZ   $150.00     Erin Margaret Kansy   0090982    CA   $ 75.00     Sanjeev Kumar   0078874    CA   $150.00     Cody Launder   0088611    CA   $300.00     Sarah Marie Branam   0080859    CO   $ 75.00     Judith Ann Hoechst   0043643    CO   $300.00     Gwendolyn A. Montgomery   0068514    CO   $225.00     Glen Henry Ackerman   0072724    DC   $ 75.00     Jesse Wayne Lemon   0092370    DC   $ 75.00     William Lee Bowersock   0029925    FL   $300.00     Anthony Britt   0037891    FL   $225.00     Gary Nicholas Brott   0021230    FL   $ 75.00     Edward Michael Kolesar   0039970    FL   $150.00     Christine Lynn St. John   0056252    FL   $150.00     Davi Leitao Kruger   0088615    GA   $ 75.00     Shayla Alexandria King   0091294    IL   $ 75.00     Brad Aaron Catlin   0083342    IN   $ 75.00     David Edgar Davidson   0016543    KY   $ 75.00     Laurie Bilz Dowell   0041208    KY   $225.00     Laura Jean Flowers   0074829    KY   $ 75.00     Christopher Allen Griffin   0076991    KY   $ 75.00     Michael Joseph Asher   0071787    MI   $300.00     Stephen Conrad Bappert   0083410    MI   $225.00     Michael Leo Battersby   0073558    MI   $300.00     Richard Arthur Buntele   0030872    MI   $300.00     Bryan Cermak   0037114    MI   $225.00     Ari Matthew Charlip   0093185    MI   $ 75.00     Richard Gerard Convertino   0041494    MI   $300.00     Elias Habib Hazkial   0085463    MI   $300.00     David Edmer Lacasse   0084077    MI   $300.00     Barbara Lynn Freedy   0011582    NC   $225.00     Claudine Marie Lovitt   0069335    NC   $150.00     Michael Anthony Cretella   0077917    NJ   $225.00     David Edward DeLorenzi   0058312    NJ   $225.00     Andre' F. Hewitt   0087507    NJ   $ 75.00     Gary Alan Jones   0037777    NM   $150.00     Sean Alexander Cooke   0088999    NV   $ 75.00     Mary Elizabeth Cubberly   0092574    NY   $300.00     Johnathan Morton Fox   0079548    NY   $300.00     Jessie Morgan Gabriel   0081290    NY   $ 75.00     Hanan Benjamin Kolko   0033071    NY   $150.00     Adam Grant Anderson   0078750    PA   $225.00     Cara Catherine Davis   0090336    PA   $150.00     Glenn Robert Davis   0077536    PA   $150.00     Ivan Stewart DeVoren   0091900    PA   $300.00     Samuel Hood Foreman   0064624    PA   $300.00     Matthew Scott Jordan   0089030    PA   $ 75.00     Gary Lee Kaplan   0083074    PA   $300.00     Robert Vincent Kelley Jr.   0071645    PA   $150.00     Curtis Alan Fisher   0028911    SC   $300.00     Erin Ann Jochim   0077062    SC   $ 75.00     Vicki Lee Doster   0055693    TN   $300.00     Wilbert Byrd   0011315    TX   $225.00     Robert Martin Gow   0059890    TX   $300.00     Otis Wayne Grigsby Jr.   0090789    TX   $150.00     Margaret Miles Guerra   0088951    TX   $300.00     David Jackson Lyon   0011035    UT   $150.00     James Murrell Daniel Jr.   0089922    VA   $ 75.00     James Benjamin Atkins   0093208    WV   $150.00     Wilbert Howard Klatt   0067932    WV   $300.00   
    On December 14, 2018, the Commission on Continuing Legal Education issued orders imposing monetary sanctions and suspending 39 attorneys for noncompliance with the provisions of Gov.Bar R. X. The following attorneys were sanctioned and suspended for not completing the educational hours required by Gov.Bar R. X(3) and not filing evidence of compliance or coming into compliance as required by Gov.Bar R. X(18)(A). The attorneys were also out of compliance with Gov.Bar R. X for the 2014 and 2016 compliance periods. The sanction amount as displayed in the last column is based on the number and the type of hour deficiency.
       Name   Attorney Number   County   State   Amount     Thomas Joseph Kircher   23473   Butler   OH   $300.00     Kevin Michael Brokaw   72893   Cuyahoga   OH   $225.00     Robert Raymond Lech   73078   Delaware   OH   $300.00     Catherine Michelle Brown   66911   Lorain   OH   $300.00     Hui Li   82661   Montgomery   OH   $300.00     Joseph Richard Cruse Jr.   73207    CA   $300.00     Jason Robert Gilbert   74044    KY   $300.00   
    The following attorneys were sanctioned and suspended for not completing the hours required by Gov.Bar R. X(3) and not filing evidence of compliance or coming into compliance as required by Gov.Bar R. X(18)(A).
    The attorneys also have not paid prior commission-ordered sanctions issued for noncompliance in the 2016 compliance period. The sanction amount as displayed in the last column is based on the number and the type of hour deficiency.
       Name   Attorney Number   County   State   Amount     Melinda J. Annandale   51935   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Kenneth Earl Banks   7194   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Gerald Alan Berk   11529   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Johnny Mac Chandler   24838   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Paul Joseph Daley   17973   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Alex Jovanovic   21469   Cuyahoga   OH   $300.00     Leslie Ann Akers   33751   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Mark John Barrett   19584   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Philip Wayne Cramer   29123   Franklin   OH   $300.00     Thomas Stephen Erlenbach   18014   Franklin   OH   $300.00     David Joseph Braukman   84253   Hamilton   OH   $300.00     Reeta Hem Brendamour   67023   Hamilton   OH   $300.00     Dixie Kay Floyd   41110   Licking   OH   $300.00     Kathleen Ann Gliva   17023   Licking   OH   $300.00     Christopher Alan Forejt   76110   Lucas   OH   $300.00     Norman George   31903   Montgomery   OH   $300.00     Dennis Michael Hanaghan   3464   Montgomery   OH   $300.00     Ellen Sue Leffak   29586   Montgomery   OH   $300.00     Tiffany Michelle Crawford   85684   Shelby   OH   $300.00     Robert Raymond Hunter Jr.   26616   Stark   OH   $300.00     Ralph David Amiet   8541   Summit   OH   $300.00     Gregory Janko Kovacevich   81459   Summit   OH   $300.00     Joseph Carmen Letizia   83004   Summit   OH   $300.00     Michael Anthony Bernard   6312   Trumbull   OH   $225.00     James Kevin Earp   83593    AZ   $300.00     Walter Joseph Kosydar   17824    CA   $300.00     William Michael Dixon   63520    IA   $300.00     Eleanor Sherrell Andrews   44142    NY   $300.00     Mark Allen Dunn   63922    TX   $300.00     Stephany T. Jackson   88952    TX   $300.00   
    Gov.Bar R. X(9)(A) and 14(A) require attorneys newly admitted to the practice of law in Ohio and attorneys newly registered for corporate status pursuant to Gov.Bar R. VI, during their first biennial compliance period, to complete at least 12 hours of new-lawyers-training instruction, including one hour each of professionalism, law-office management, and client-fund management, and nine hours of instruction in one or more substantive-law topics that focus on handling legal matters in specific practice areas. Gov.Bar R. X(4) requires attorneys whose last names begin with a letter from M through Z to comply with the requirements of Gov.Bar R. X on or before December 31 of even-numbered years. Gov.Bar R. X(18)(A) provides that an attorney or judge who fails to comply timely with the applicable requirements of Gov.Bar R. X or Gov.Jud.R. IV but does so within 90 days of the December 31 deadline shall be assessed a late-compliance fee, as established by the commission. Gov.Bar R. X(18)(B) provides that an attorney or judge who fails to comply with the applicable requirements of Gov.Bar R. X or Gov.Jud.R. IV shall be notified of noncompliance by the commission and that unless the attorney or judge comes into compliance or files evidence of compliance that is satisfactory to the commission on or before the date set forth in the notice, the commission shall issue an order imposing a sanction authorized by Gov.Bar R. X(17) and consistent with CLE Reg. 503.
    The following attorneys were sanctioned and suspended for not completing the new-lawyers-training requirement as required by Gov.Bar R. X(9)(A) and (14)(A) and not filing evidence of compliance or coming into compliance as required by Gov.Bar R. X(18)(A).
       Name   Attorney Number   County   State     John Francis Kirby   96037   Cuyahoga   OH     Addison Tierney Bare   96037   Franklin   OH