Annual Bench-Bar Memorial Program

The 2012 Annual Greater Cleveland Bench-Bar Memorial Program was held Monday, April 2 at noon in the atrium of the Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse, 201 Superior Avenue, located at the corner of Superior and East 3rd in downtown Cleveland.

The Memorial Program is presented each year as a collaborative effort by the bench and local bars, including the Cleveland Metropolitan, Federal-Northeast District, Asian American, Norman S. Minor, Ohio State and Ohio Women’s Bar Associations.  This year's program was held in honor and remembrance of the lawyers and judges of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County who passed away from Jan. 1, 2011 to Jan. 31, 2011.

Those who provided brief remarks were representatives of local bar associations and the invited speaker, Father Edward Estok.  Also, the presiding Judges - or their designees - of the Eighth District Court of Appeals, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and Cleveland Municipal Court, provided remarks followed by a reading of the names of the deceased.

If you have any questions regarding this event, or know of someone who should be included in the 2013 program, please contact Melanie Lekan by phone at (216) 539-3711, or via e-mail at mlekan@clemetrobar.org.

Those memorialized at the 2012 program were: