Ronald H. Jarashow

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Ronald H. Jarashow

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Prior offices

Maryland 5th Circuit Court Anne Arundel County

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Education

Bachelor's

Franklin and Marshall College, 1971

Law

Catholic University of America, 1975

Ronald H. Jarashow was a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in Maryland. He was appointed to the court by Governor Martin O'Malley and served on the court from March 1, 2010 to December 20, 2010. Jarashow lost his bid for re-election and his term ended in 2010.

Education

Jarashow received his undergraduate degree in English from Franklin and Marshall College in 1971 and his J.D. from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in 1975.

Career

• 2010: Judge, Fifth Circuit Court, Anne Arundel County
• 1976-2010: Partner, Franch, Jarashow & Smith, P.A.
• 1975-1976: Law Clerk to Chief Judge Richard P. Gilbert, Maryland Court of Special Appeals
• 1975: Admitted to the Maryland Bar

Elections

2010

See also: Maryland judicial elections, 2010

Jarashow was defeated in his bid for re-election to the Fifth Circuit Court by Laura S. Kiessling and Alison Asti in the general election on November 2, 2010.

Noteworthy events

2016

In April 2016, Jarashow filed an ethics complaint against Fifth Circuit Court candidate Claudia Barber, alleging that Barber, an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., could not retain her position as a judge while running in a partisan election. Barber disagreed, saying there was "no ethics matter at issue because judges are on two ballots in Maryland, both Democrat and Republican." She continued, "Partisan is defined under (D.C.) law as one political party." Jarashow supported the four incumbents in the race. In 2010, he had also filed an ethics complaint against Alison Asti following his unsuccessful re-election campaign against her.

2010

After the general election, Jarashow wrote a letter to the state prosecutor alleging that Alison Asti had violated election laws during her campaign. As incumbents, Kiessling and Jarashow had been campaigning as a slate. His accusations against Asti stemmed from fliers that were handed out by her campaign that resembled fliers that Kiessling and Jarashow were using. Asti's flier showed her and Kiessling, and Jarashow said that the flier was intended to mislead voters into thinking that the two women were running as a team. The two fliers both had black and yellow color schemes.

Asti denied the accusations, and said that her flier was meant to show that Asti endorsed Kiessling. "My poll workers were instructed that I was endorsing Laura Kiessling and that Laura Kiessling had not endorsed me," she wrote in an email.

In January 2011, the Maryland Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee, which has no power to enforce penalties, rebuked Asti and said that the campaign flier was misleading.

See also

• Anne Arundel County, Maryland
• Maryland Circuit Courts
• Judicial selection in Maryland

External links

• Maryland State Archives: Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, Ronald H. Jarashow Biography
• Maryland State Archives: Anne Arundel County, Maryland Judicial Branch
• Maryland Courts.gov: Circuit Courts overview

Footnotes

Maryland courts

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Federal courts:

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Maryland • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Maryland

State courts:

Maryland Supreme Court • Appellate Court of Maryland • Maryland District Courts • Maryland Circuit Courts • Maryland Orphans' Court

State resources:

Courts in Maryland • Maryland judicial elections • Judicial selection in Maryland