Ronald Adrine

Judge Ronald Adrine was first elected to the bench of the Cleveland (Ohio) Municipal Court in 1981.  He has since been re-elected four times without opposition, most recently in 2005.  Over the last twenty-seven years, Judge Adrine has served as a member of the Governor’s Task Force on Family Violence in Ohio, the Ohio Attorney General’s Victim’s Assistance Advisory Board, and the Ohio Supreme Court’s Domestic Violence Task Force.  He co-chairs the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence and chairs the National Board of Directors of the Family Violence Prevention Fund.  He served as the first chair of Cleveland’s Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. The Judge lectures extensively on domestic violence issues to a host of organizations, associations, and governmental agencies, including, the U.S. Department of Justice, the National College of District Attorneys, The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the National League of Cities and the National Center for Disease Control.  He is co-author of a reference work entitled, “Ohio Domestic Violence Law,” part of the West Group Ohio Handbook Series.  He is a graduate of Fisk University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.