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Bill
O'Neill for Ohio Supreme Court Justice
WEBSITE:
www.oneillforjustice.com
Bill
O'Neill’s whole life has been about service. He
is a former Judge, an Army Officer, a Registered Nurse and an adoptive parent.
Upon graduation from
Ohio
University
with a degree in Journalism he found himself on active duty with the United
States Army three weeks later. As a
young Lieutenant he served in
Vietnam
and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal.
In 1979 Bill served as the Commanding Officer of Troop L, 107th
Armored Cavalry in
Painesville
, and retired from the Ohio National Guard as a Lieutenant Colonel
in 1996. In 2007 Governor Ted
Strickland inducted Bill O’Neill into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame.
Bill’s
work career has been varied and interesting.
He has been an apprentice Ironworker (Local 17); worked as a cub reporter
for a small town newspaper (Sandusky Register); a television reporter for a
major television station (Channel 4, Columbus); a union organizer for both the
Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO and the Ohio Civil Service Employees
Association (OCSEA); a small business owner in Geneva On the Lake; a small town
lawyer (Geneva); and a Pediatric Emergency Room nurse at a major hospital.
(Cleveland Clinic).
Bill went to law school on the GI Bill and served
as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of
Ohio
for twelve years before being elected to the 11th District Court of Appeals in
1996. He served two terms as Presiding Judge on the Court and sat by assignment
on the Supreme Court of Ohio. In
2004 and 2006 Bill was the Democratic nominee for the Supreme Court and his
legendary refusal to accept contributions as a Judge, “No Money From No
Body” landed him on the front page
of the Sunday New York Times.
At age
50, Bill went back to school to become a nurse, and now he works nights in the
pediatric ER of Hillcrest Hospital, an affiliate of the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation. He’s a proud father of
four grown children, whom he raised alone after their mother, Shaylah, died in a
car accident in 1995. His son Shawn
served as a Loadmaster on a C-130 in
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
with the United States Air Force. Shawn’s
twin sister Katie was a community organizer in
Portland
Oregon
for several years and is now a Senior at
Ohio
University
. Tiffany O’Neill, another
Ohio
University
graduate, is a professional photographer in
Chicago
; and
Brandon
, the youngest of the O’Neill children is a Senior at
Kent
State
University
.
William M. O'Neill, Treasurer. 119 Waverly Lane, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022
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