Tyrone Yates
| Tyrone Yates | |
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| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 33rd district |
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In office January 3, 2003 – February 5, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel T. Britton |
| Succeeded by | Alicia Reece |
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| Born |
January 22, 1954 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Alma mater | University of Cincinnati, University of Toledo |
| Profession | Attorney, Educator |
Tyrone Keith Yates (born January 22, 1954) is a Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge. He was elected on November 8, 2011. He was unopposed to fill the unexpired term of Judge Nadine Lovelace Allen who was elected to the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. His new term runs until January 1, 2014. He was appointed originally by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland on January 26, 2010. The Hamilton County Municipal Court serves approximately 900,000 citizens.
Judge Yates is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 33rd District from 2003-2010.
Yates was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Withrow High School in 1972. He received a B.A. degree in history from the University of Cincinnati in 1978 and a J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law in March, 1981. He has studied online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Entrepreneurial Negotiations, 2016), Harvard Law School (PIL, 1986, PON 2014, PON 2015, PON 2016, PON 2017) and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government (May,1997) in Executive Education. While at the University of Cincinnati, Yates was elected president of the student body in 1975, served as student representative to the UC Board of Trustees (1975–76) and earned the Jones Prize for Oratorical Excellence in 1978 (Senior Oration Prize). At the University of Toledo College of Law, Yates was a Fornoff Moot Court Semi-Finalist, served on the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, served as Vice-Chairman of BALSA, was elected to the Governing Board of the law school and the Order of the Barristers. After his first year of law school, he was appointed to a White House Internship in the Summer of 1979 to the staff of President Jimmy Carter.
Yates is a former State of Ohio Assistant Attorney General and former Associate at White, Getgey, and Meyer Co., LPA.
Tyrone K. Yates was selected twice to serve as Vice-Mayor of Cincinnati and served as a Member of Cincinnati City Council from 1990 to 1999. In the 1997 election, he was endorsed by both the Democratic Party of Hamilton County and the Charter Committee of Greater Cincinnati.
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