Joe Cimperman (born c. 1970) is an American politician who served as a member of the Cleveland City Council, representing near-west side neighborhoods from 1997 to 2016.

He attended John Carroll University, a Jesuit institution on the city's east side, where he served as the Student Union President during the 1991–1992 term.

[2] While at John Carroll University, Cimperman founded Project GOLD, an international award-winning service organization dedicated to helping underprivileged families.

Cimperman contributed two years of service to the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, working with developmentally challenged adults in Portland, Maine and at the Don Miller AIDS Hospice in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cimperman was first elected to City Council in 1997,[5] representing the 13th Ward, which includes the areas of St. Clair-Superior, Midtown, Downtown, Tremont, Ohio City/Near West, and Duck Island neighborhoods of Cleveland.

Adopted in 2005 and established as part of the zoning code, the ordinance gives the city the right to reserve lands for parks, recreation facilities and open space.

[13] Through an effort with the George Gund Foundation, the Downtown Cleveland Alliance and the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition, Cimperman helped implement a program in which farmers' markets located in Cleveland can accept the social assistance Ohio Direction Card, allowing cardholders to buy from area farmers' markets and receive an extra five dollars.

[23] In December 2007, Cimperman entered the race for the Democratic nomination for Ohio's 10th Congressional District, which was represented by veteran politician Dennis Kucinich.

[24] Cimperman's campaign tapped into the growing sentiment in Greater Cleveland that Dennis Kucinich's second consecutive long-shot bid for the Presidency was distracting the Congressman from focusing on issues such as the local economy.

[28] In 2015, the Ohio Ethics Commission announced an investigation of Joe Cimperman regarding city contracts that were awarded to his wife's employer, ParkWorks (later renamed LAND Studio).

[29] In 2018, the commission found that Cimperman, as a city councilman, had, on 26 occasions, voted on or crafted legislation that awarded contracts to ParkWorks or LAND Studio.