JOIN JUDGE RONALD ADRINE IN A GCC BAIL REFORM TEAM RESEARCH MEETING
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 7 pm by ZOOM
Retired Administrative and Presiding Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine will meet with GCC’s Bail Reform Team to help us to learn more about:
- how bail operates in Cleveland/Cuyahoga County and
- how it can and should operate to prevent unjust pretrial detention
This will be a zoom meeting where we will ask Judge Adrine questions and learn more about who makes decisions and what they are based on – for people who are arrested and charged (and often detained before trial).
Click the red link below to review documents that Judge Adrine has forwarded to us:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11r2I-P1ZqEEoKWQD-i9ucDeIbqQWxNuc?usp=sharing
Register in advance for this Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqfu2rrDsjHNU7zUb5Mpgu9dMtiQLkLS8D
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
If you have any questions, please respond or reach out to Louise, Theresa, or Rev. Colvin, cc’d above. We look forward to seeing you January 27!
On behalf of the GCC Bail Reform Team,
Stacey Hren
Administrative & Operations Organizer
stacey@greaterclevelandcongregations.org
Adrine passed the Ohio State Bar in 1973 and went on to work as prosecuting attorney for the Cuyahoga County in the criminal division in 1974. He entered into private practice with his father, the late Russell T. Adrine, in 1976. Adrine was appointed to serve as senior staff counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations, in Washington, D.C. in 1978. In 1980, he returned to Cleveland and merged four African American legal organizations into the Norman S. Minor Bar Association in Cleveland. He first ran for a seat on the Cleveland Municipal Court bench in 1981, and was re-elected five times to full six-year terms from 1981 to 2017. He chaired the Ohio Commission on Racial Fairness in 1994. Adrine served as administrative and presiding judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court from 2008 to 2017. Here, he led the effort to create a Family Justice Center in 2014. Adrine received national attention for his ruling in a Cleveland Municipal Court case that involved the actions of two Cleveland police officers that resulted in the death of twelve year old Tamir Rice. Adrine retired from the court after thirty six years of service in 2017. He joined Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law as a Leader-in-Residence, serving as its first jurist-in-residence in 2018.
Adrine served as chair of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Interpreter Services Advisory Committee and of the National Board of Directors of Futures Without Violence, and was co-chair of the advisory board of the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence. He was also a member of the Supreme Court’s Criminal Sentencing Commission’s Ad Hoc Committee on Bail and Pretrial Services.
He was awarded the Ohio State Bar Association Ohio Bar Medal in 2000. The Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association also recognized Adrine in 2002, and he received the second Elizabeth Hines Domestic Violence Award in 2013. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Association of Municipal/County Court Judges of Ohio President’s Award for Excellent Judicial Service, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP, and was an inaugural member inductee of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Hall of Fame. Adrine also received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award of the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Constitution Society in 2018.