He helped start their pension plan. Kilbane said that her parents, Jack and JoAnn Kilbane, bought only union made when she was growing up. My whole family's that way. Both judges grew up in Cleveland. They even knew each other in grade school.
People stay here.
And the people who go away, come back. Indeed, although Kilbane spent a year in Boston after college, she returned to Cleveland for law school. Both she and Keough went to Cleveland Marshall Law School and graduated in 1987. Their affection for their hometown has always translated into action. Her husband, John Myers, left the Public Defenders Office just before it was organized.