COLUMBUS — Elizabeth Ellis, a Montgomery County assistant prosecutor, will be the newest jurist on the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.
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Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday appointed Ellis to the seat on the court’s General Division.
She will assume office June 20, taking the seat formerly held by Judge Mary Kate Huffman who was elected to the Second District Court of Appeals. Ellis must win election in November 2024 to retain the seat for the term expiring on July 1, 2027.
The judge-designee has been with the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office since 2021.
She spent the previous 19 years at the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office. where her tenure included serving as civil division chief, chief appellate counsel, and juvenile division chief.
Ellis is a 2001 graduate of the University of Dayton School of Law and earned a bachelor of arts from Denison University in 1997.
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