....Brown served as a Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge from 1993 to 2002, when she retired. She then led the charge to create the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, a child abuse and family violence prevention program.....
Yvette McGee Brown is well-known in central Ohio because of her work and judicial experience. She has also been a regular contributor on Channel 10 (WBNS-TV).10TV.com:
Yvette McGee Brown is the founding president of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children's Hospital. A multi-disciplinary child abuse and family violence program that is the first of it's kind to co-locate prevention, assessment, treatment, research, advocacy and education services for children and families experiencing abuse. In 2002, Judge McGee Brown retired from the Franklin County Common Pleas Court to lead the effort to create the Center. In her role at Nationwide Children's Hospital, she leads a team of 400 child abuse, medical, and behavioral health professionals that in just five short years has become a national model for integration of multi-disciplinary services....
.....In 2008, Judge McGee Brown was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. She has been honored for her community service with the Public Service Award from Ohio University; The Medal of Merit Alumni Award from Ohio University; The Distinguished Service Award from The Ohio State University; the William Oxley Thompson Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement from The Ohio State University Alumni Association; the Champion of Children Award; and the YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, to name a few.....
....Judge McGee Brown is a native of Columbus, Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree in Journalism/Public Relations from Ohio University; her Juris Doctorate from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law; an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Ohio Dominican University; and, an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Mount Carmel College of Nursing....
Judge Brown has a very impressive resume.
In March 2009, Yvette McGee Brown served as the commencement speaker for the Ohio State University Winter Commencement, according to the Lantern.
Leave it to Republican Chair Kevin DeWine (who'd be nothing if his name wasn't "DeWine") to bash the Strickland-Brown ticket.
Dayton Daily News:
Ohio Republican Chairman Kevin DeWine doesn’t think much of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland’s expected choice for his lieutenant governor running mate....
.....“He’s had nearly a year to make this selection, and the best he could come up with in the face of an unprecedented fiscal emergency is a social worker with no experience in public finance or state government,” DeWine said in an e-mail....
Thank you once again, Kevin DeWine, for showing that you are still a putz.