Your feedback ensures we stay focused on the facts that matter to you most—take our survey.
Don Roberts (Ohio)
Don Roberts (Nonpartisan, Republican Party) ran for election for judge of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division in Ohio. Roberts lost in the general election on November 8, 2022. He advanced from the Republican primary on May 3, 2022.
Roberts completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Franklin County, Ohio (2022)
General election
General election for Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division
Incumbent Kim A. Browne defeated Don Roberts in the general election for Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kim A. Browne (Nonpartisan) | 69.7 | 242,718 |
 | Don Roberts (Nonpartisan)  | 30.3 | 105,643 | |
| Total votes: 348,361 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division
Incumbent Kim A. Browne advanced from the Democratic primary for Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kim A. Browne | 100.0 | 61,262 |
| Total votes: 61,262 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division
Don Roberts advanced from the Republican primary for Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Don Roberts | 100.0 | 53,794 |
| Total votes: 53,794 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Don Roberts completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Roberts' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
I am an Air Force veteran, a former police officer and even a former courtroom baliiff. My experience and vantage point of the courts is unlike many other attorneys or judges. Experience goes beyond my professional experience. My wife and I have a daughter with Down Syndrome. Parenting a child with special needs has made me look at my cases sensitive to the experiences of families of children with special needs. I have a grandchild who falls within the Autism spectrum and I have had the opportunity to work with an attorney who also falls within the spectrum. I’ve learned to look at the ABILITIES of individuals rather than focusing on their inabilities.
- Domestic & Juvenile Court requires a judge to be attentive, not just to the facts, but to the parties in order to do the things that sets this court apart from others. No other court is saddled with the responsibility to ensure the "best interest of the child". The best judges for this bench are those who have years of experience and practice listening to parties, understanding their needs and fashioning resolutions that are fair and reasonable. My 20 years of practicing in this Court gives me the strength to meet this challenge.
- Parties before Domestic & Juvenile Court must move through the system and their legal issue expeditiously. Even in Franklin County, known to be the busiest court in the state of Ohio, must do better at resolving cases appropriately in a timely manner. In Domestic and Juvenile Court, the clock is always ticking children age out, multiple and lengthy continuances often compound problems that brought parties to court. I will work hard at identifying specialized dockets such as drug court, veteran & mental health court in order to have judges identify frequent, common issues and allow those judges of those dockets identify commonalities and expedite those cases. This type of attention will allow a fair & focused result quicker.
- I have worked in the world of prosecution as a former police officer. I have defended clients in criminal and juvenile delinquency issues. I have applied both of these experiences in my civil cases and domestic violence and stalking cases. It is crucial that our Domestic & Juvenile Court judges are balanced in their decisions and equally important is that they hold the experience to not from a single area of practice (defense/prosecution), but both. I will carry that experience to the bench with me, when I am elected. Our family law judges must be balanced in their vantage point of the cases they hear.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division |
Personal |
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Ohio • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Ohio
State courts:
Ohio Supreme Court • Ohio District Courts of Appeal • Ohio Courts of Common Pleas • Ohio County Courts • Ohio Municipal Courts • Ohio Court of Claims
State resources:
Courts in Ohio • Ohio judicial elections • Judicial selection in Ohio
