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Kevin Ritter
2025 - Present
2026
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Kevin Ritter (Republican Party) is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing District 94. He assumed office on January 1, 2025. His current term ends on December 31, 2026.
Ritter (Republican Party) ran for election to the Ohio House of Representatives to represent District 94. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Ritter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kevin Ritter was born in Muskegon, Michigan. He earned a bachelor's and a graduate degree from Central Michigan University in 1990 and 1992, respectively. His career experience includes working as a history teacher.[1]
Ritter has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- County Employee Benefits Consortium of Ohio
- County Commissioners Association of Ohio
- American Baseball Coaches Association
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Ohio House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Ohio House of Representatives District 94
Kevin Ritter defeated Wenda Sheard and Andrea Neutzling in the general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 94 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kevin Ritter (R)  | 69.4 | 37,516 |
 | Wenda Sheard (D) | 30.6 | 16,568 | |
 | Andrea Neutzling (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 10 | |
| Total votes: 54,094 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94
Wenda Sheard advanced from the Democratic primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Wenda Sheard | 100.0 | 4,009 |
| Total votes: 4,009 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94
Kevin Ritter defeated Shannon Walker in the Republican primary for Ohio House of Representatives District 94 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Ritter | 62.8 | 9,683 |
 | Shannon Walker | 37.2 | 5,743 | |
| Total votes: 15,426 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ritter received the following endorsements.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kevin Ritter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ritter's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I completed all the coursework, language exams, and comprehensive exams necessary for a PhD. in European History at Western Michigan University but I left before graduation to found a sports development organization called Coast to Coast Baseball.
For the next 20+ years I helped over 4000 amateur ballplayers achieve their dream of playing at the collegiate or professional level. During that same time I continued to teach History and American government at both the college and high school level.
In 2014, my wife and I joined two other couples in founding a private classical school called Veritas Academy in Marietta, OH. We began the first year with just 37 students in grades K-6th. Today, the school has over 150 students in grades PreK-12th.
I closed Coast to Coast Baseball and curtailed my commitments at Veritas Academy when I was elected a Washington County Commissioner in the fall of 2018. I ran for reelection, unopposed, in the fall of 2022.
Recently, a group of people from Columbus recruited me to run for an open seat in the 94th House District and that's how I find myself here today.- I am a committed family man and Christian. I attend mass weekly at St. Mary's Basilica in Marietta. I believe family is the basic building block of a health society and that it is incumbent upon government officials to consider how legislation will impact families before it is passed. The State of Ohio must be firmly committed to reinforcing the rights we enjoy under the 1st Amendment.
- I believe that despite our blemishes, the United States is the greatest nation in the history of the world, and that it affords more opportunity, more liberty, and more freedom, to more people than any country past or present. I believe it is the solemn duty of elected officials (local, state and federal) to take seriously their oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
- I believe in small government, low taxation, and openness and transparency in our dealings. Government at all levels has grown far beyond what the Founders envisioned as necessary or acceptable.
As a result, liberty and personal responsibility have correspondingly diminished. Today, we too often look to government to solve our problems and provide for our wants and needs. I believe that small government (focused on doing only those things individuals cannot do for themselves) allows freedom and liberty to flourish.
With the growth of government has come crushing taxation and profligate spending. I am a firm believer that individual citizens spend their money more wisely and efficiently than does the state or federal government.
I am interested in energy independence and the benefits provided by a productive oil and gas industry. I also recognize the effort to identify and properly cap "orphan" wells located in SE Ohio is essential to protecting our water supply.
I look up to Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII's Lord High Chancellor, who stood against him when Henry sought to force Catholics to leave the Church of Rome.
I admire Dietrich Bonhoeffer and men like him who stood against the Nazis.
Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" summarizes well the importance of "interposing institutions" in buffering individuals from the harsh power of government.
Benjamin Weaver ( from a series of David Liss novels)
Right now, because Ohio is expanding, one of the greatest needs is housing.
We must continue to make reliable broadband access available to all regions in the state.
I believe it is important to building relationships between members from different regions of the state. Personally, I hope to get to know people from different backgrounds and from the opposition party as both have the potential to force me to consider my own ideas from a different perspective.
Through a variety of channels, the Board of Commissioners was able to secure full-funding for the project. What I will remember is the joy and relief of some of those residents who had lost hope.
I would simply say, I believe checks and balances are important in any republican form of government.
Today, I think I would look at something to loosen adoption laws or subsidize the cost of adoption so that choosing "life" was easier and more affordable for Ohio residents.
Americans for Prosperity
Higher Education
Finance
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
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Ohio House of Representatives District 94 2025-Present |
Succeeded by - |
