Thu Feb 09 2012
by Marsha McKenna
Senior Editor
Stow -- At the Stow Municipal Court, the incumbent judge and clerk of court handily won re-election Nov. 3.
According to final but unofficial results from the Summit County Board of Elections, Judge Lisa Coates garnered 35,052 votes (76.66 percent) while her challenger, Adam VanHo, received 10,672 votes (23.34 percent). Coates was not available for comment.
Clerk of Courts Lisa Zeno Carano received 28,157 votes (63.67 percent) to challenger Kathleen Murphy Jeffers' 16,064 votes (36.33 percent).
"I would like to thank Mrs. Jeffers for running a clean campaign," Carano said. "I am truly humbled by the voters' support and looking forward to working hard the next six years."
Ballots are expected to be certified Oct. 24.
Both terms are six years and will begin Jan. 1, 2010.
Coates, 41, a Hudson resident, was appointed to the bench in 2003 and elected in 2004. Coates has said she would seek to implement a mental health court "to address a defendant's mental issues on a long-term basis."
A second goal Coates has described would be to create a classroom-courtroom curriculum to introduce students to the judicial branch of the government and also to address substance abuse issues.
Her opponent was VanHo, 34, a Cuyahoga Falls resident. He is presently an assistant Ohio attorney general and has served as an assistant prosecutor in Summit and Montgomery counties, as well as a special prosecutor in Summit and Jefferson counties. He is also on the auxiliary faculty at the University of Akron.
Carano, 46, a Tallmadge resident, was elected to the clerk of courts post in 2007 to complete the term left open when former clerk of courts Eric Czetli took a position with the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Carano has said she plans to update the court's computer software and hardware, including pursuing technology such as electronic filing and on-line payments. In doing so, she believes this "will ease and simplify" consumers' -- defendants, plaintiffs, attorneys and law enforcement agencies -- interactions with the court, providing "more efficiency and accuracy."
Jeffers, 59, a resident of Hudson, is a probate and estate tax paralegal.
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