First Hispanic judge appointed to Ohio appellate court
October 31, 2009
Ohio: Governor Ted Strickland has appointed the first Hispanic to serve on an appellate court in Ohio. She is Keila Cosme, an attorney from Toledo. Cosme was appointed to fill the remainder of William Skow's term on the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals after he passed away. She will take her seat on November 16, 2009. If Cosme wishes to retain the seat when her appointment expires, she must run for it in the 2010 general election.[1]
Cosme was born in Puerto Rico, and moved to the United States when she was 17 years old. She graduated from Boston University in 1990 and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1994. Cosme is married with two children.[2]
Prior to her judicial appointment, Cosme was a partner with the Toledo law firm Cosme, D'Angelo, and Szollosi since 2001. She worked primarily in civil litigation, with an emphasis on "complex commercial litigation and personal injury/wrongful death actions".[2] She was in private practice at the Law Offices of Keila D. Cosme from 1998-2001 and was with the firm Calfee, Halter and Griswold from 1995-98.[3]
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
