Judge4Yourself.com recognized for Civic Leadership
as Northern Ohio Live "Awards of Achievement" finalist

From Northern Ohio Live magazine, October 2007 issue:

"For the past six years, the Judicial Candidates Rating Coalition has taken a unique approach to empowering area voters through its website,Judge4Yourself.com. For decades, local bar associations interviewed judicial candidates and issued their ratings, with few non-lawyers paying attention, and the results having minimal impact on the elections. The trend, as the JCRC discovered, was for people to cast supporting votes based on familiar names, gender and race, allowing for inept judges to win out over highly qualified candidates with less common names and backgrounds.

The JCRC is composed of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Cuyahoga County Bar Association, the Norman S. Minor Bar Association, the Cuyahoga Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the Ohio Women's Bar Association. The coalition has allowed these organizations to jointly interview candidates, exchange views on candidates' qualifications and – for the first time – create a uniform rating system. While each organization rates candidates separately, their research results are compiled and available to the public at Judge4Yourself.com, as well as many area media outlets and direct mailings, allowing the chart to be reproduced millions of times, arming the public with the knowledge to elect the right civic leaders."