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Jim Petro

Jim Petro

Jim Petro

Jim Petro is a former Republican Attorney General of Ohio. Throughout his 35-year career as an attorney and 28-year career as an elected public office holder, he has been publicly committed to strong law-and-order platforms. As Ohio Auditor of State, he and his team cleaned up a corrupt office and performed audits that led to the criminal conviction of an unprecedented 110 public officials in Ohio. His tenure as Attorney General was marked by a nation-leading effort that added 210,000 DNA profiles from Ohio felons and misdemeanants to the national DNA Codis database. This effort resulted in the immediate solving of dozens of cold cases, hundreds over the... Read full bio

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Columbus Dispatch, March 12, 2012
...Franklin County), False Justice: Eight Myths That Convict the Innocent. Written with her husband, former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro, her book focuses awareness on wrongful convictions. • Donald Ray Pollock (Ross County), The Devil All the Time:...
Cleveland Live, January 1, 2012
...order, are 10 newsworthy moments from the literary year. 1. Fighting "False Justice." Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro, who oversaw 35,000 active criminal and civil legal cases, left office in 2007 and made common cause with the Innocence Project,...
Columbus Dispatch, March 2, 2012
...That’s Romney’s Achilles’ heel.” Blackwell said that “Romney probably has the same challenge” faced by Republican Jim Petro — who became “pro-life” in 2000 — during his primary loss to Blackwell six years later. “On the life...
Cleveland Live, February 19, 2012
...successor, Patrick O'Malley, wrote to the state auditor's office about bookkeeping irregularities. A month later, then-Auditor Jim Petro launched a special audit covering 1988 to 1997, all but three of the years Russo had served as the county's elected...
Vindy.com, February 18, 2012
...amount of one year’s tuition and fees.” The change also complies with an initiative by Ohio Chancellor Jim Petro, requiring Ohio’s public universities to offer three-year degrees. Ashland Provost Frank Pettigrew explained the benefits of the...
Individual.com, February 16, 2012
...Developing a single state education system spanning from preschool through college has been talked about for years. Chancellor Jim Petro pitched the idea when he was running for governor in 2006 and has been discussing it with Heffner since he was named...
Columbus Dispatch, February 16, 2012
...Developing a single state education system spanning from preschool through college has been talked about for years. Chancellor Jim Petro pitched the idea when he was running for governor in 2006 and has been discussing it with Heffner since he was named...
Vindy.com, February 11, 2012
...change can lead to chaos. So, into which category would we put a recent suggestion by Ohio Chancellor Jim Petro that the state adopt a new high-school test to assess college readiness. We think it’s a good idea, as far as it goes. Petro, whose job is...
Ohio University Post, February 10, 2012
...could cost the university money. “Ohio’s universities are a driver of economic development in the state,” said Jim Petro, chancellor of the Board of Regents, in a news release. “By allowing our universities to be free from mandates. … Ohioans...