Colleen Mary O'Toole is an American politician who presently serves as Prosecutor for Ashtabula County, Ohio.
O'Toole left the Eleventh District at the end of her term in February 2011 after being defeated in the 2010 election, and founded award-winning, On Demand Interpretation Services, LLC, an entrepreneurial start up that provides certified interpretation in 170 languages and American sign-language to public entities and their support networks.
[1] In 2012, she returned to the Eleventh District Court of Appeals by defeating sitting Judge Mary Jane Trapp.
[3] Judge O'Toole began her legal career in 1991 as a law clerk and a litigation and appellate attorney in the Cuyahoga County Public Defender's Office.
[5] Prior to the 2012 election, a close personal friend of her electoral opponent, Mary Jane Trapp, filed a 12-count grievance against O'Toole alleging that she had violated the Ohio Code of Judicial Conduct.
O'Toole relied upon the case of In re Judicial Campaign Grievance Against O'Neill, 132 Ohio St.3d 1472, 2012-Ohio-3223, in asserting her first amendment right to use the honorary title as she had earned in her prior election.
By October 6, 2012, the panel hearing was completed, a recommendation had been issued, and an article had appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer deriding O'Toole... ...
...{¶ 78} And that is just as James B. Davis, the complainant, would have it, because he was working as the alter ego of O'Toole's opponent, Mary Jane Trapp.