Extensive courtroom experience
handling over 7,000 civil and criminal
matters
Received perfect score and rating of
Excellent from the Judicial Candidates and
Rating Coalition in 2006
Presided over seven death penalty
cases
As an attorney in private practice,
Joe Russo worked to help families that had
suffered catastrophic injuries caused by
manufacturing and workplace negligence.
Judge Russo's Plan
to Restore Public Confidence in our
Judiciary
Today, as in the
past, any justice of the Ohio Supreme
Court can sit on cases where parties or
entire industries which have financed
their campaigns have legal issues
pending before them. The Wall Street
Journal, the New York Times, and various
Ohio newspapers have gone to great
lengths to discuss how judicial
campaigns have been taken over by
“spending by special interests” that has
soared “into the stratosphere.” These
types of characterizations have led to
perceptions of impropriety.
