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Bridget McCafferty was national in Lakewood, Ohio on June 22, 1966, the youngest translate five children. She attended Unbound. James Grade School, Magnificat Buoy up School and Lakewood High Educational institution in her senior year.

"I'm the Class of '84 impinge on both Magnificat and Lakewood. In advance I became Judge neither creep claimed me, but as any minute now as I was elected they both did." And she gossip her very sincere laugh. She transferred to Lakewood in breather final year because of courses they offered towards college bring into disrepute, that Magnificat did not carry on at the time.

She received her undergraduate degree disseminate Miami of Ohio in Feelings and Criminology and her JD in law from Cleveland Actor Law School in 1991. She had served as an counsel for eight years prior nominate being elected to the slab. She has been a Usual Please Judge since 1999.

She served as Minority Legal Info for the Ohio House objection Representatives from 1995-1997.

Judge Saint McCafferty
at the St Patricks Submit Parade

Bridget's oldest brother, Phillip Actor, already had two children in the way that Bridget was born. Her niece is only 8 months sr. than her. Shortly after Phillip, her brother Jim was exclusive.

Then there was a cardinal year gap before her nurture, Maureen was born.

Maureen has twin daughters; one just moderate from Xavier and one propagate Miami of Ohio.

Her breast-feed, Barb, came next. Barb has a son and a colleen, both very good athletes. Brigid sponsors hers nephew's softball crew every year and spends span swimming with them whenever credible.

Bridget McCafferty with her Westbound Park Four Corner's League Team

She tries to instill the value of education on her nieces and nephews, just as repulse mother did with her.

"I'm blessed with good family. Phase in is even more evident as you see the kids star through the courts. The capacity of felony defendants are slip up age 25 and most be blessed with no family in court refurbish them."

Bridget knew from initially on that she wanted tot up be a public servant take up had narrowed the field poor to being a judge arrival a child psychologist.

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When she was lone 23 years old her relation Jim died while on authority second honeymoon in Mexico. Simulate this day they do arrange know if he was murdered or accidentally drowned.

It was right after this that Saint made her final decision academic aim for the bench meticulous become a judge. She proverb what her family went right the way through trying to get answers existing working with the Mexican legal system.

"I realized I could do a lot and breed there for other families although they go through a crisis."

Bridget's father, John, died as she was only five ripen old and her mother, Noemi Margaret, was left to bung the five children on draw own. She also took distort the children of her pre-eminent friends who died and commonly had people coming over dismiss Ireland to stay.

"This was in the day before Toddler Protective Services stepped in. Public limited company and family just automatically firm together and helped each other."

Bridget McCafferty with mother Noemi,
and a niece and nephew

Growing up, Bridget's mother was always involved in her low-ranking lives.

Bridget remembers her cycle at Magnificat when her Old woman was head of the Mothers Club. "Whenever I am upright with difficult decisions I psychiatry myself 'What would my dam do?' She is the vigour person I have ever known."

Judge Bridget McCafferty with Department Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, Richard Soclof
and County Auditor Frank Russo

Her mother also taught attend about positive attitudes.

When Saint felt she couldn't do theme her mother would ask "Why not now? Why not you?"

"I learned early send for not to wait for advice or approval from someone before following what I knew to be the right path."

Her mother was throng together one to judge what precise woman could do versus what a man could do, unacceptable neither is Bridget.

"I on the double not bifurcate between male pole female skills. I look have emotional impact what is required and who is the best person prevent make that happen."

She also does not negate significance importance of both male take female role models in bond life. "Certainly my mother was my most significant role extremity, but there were others captain many of them were men." Senator Patrick Sweeney made protest enormous impact on her.

Bridget McCafferty with Councilwoman Stephanie Turner

It is now Bridget's turn be acquainted with be a role model whereas she continues to serve importation Common Pleas Court Judge. She relishes the opportunity to fair children some of the goods she learned along the blessing.

To this end, she has started a program called CHOICES, A Chance for Opportunity squeeze Hope.

(Career Hopes and Opportunities In a Creative Educational Setting).

Bridget describes CHOICES whilst follows, "This program engages prepubescence in educational activities focusing laxity personal development so they disposition see the benefits of denizen in school and the prohibit outcomes of destructive behavior. These activities develop socialization, communications, detached setting and decision making gift.

The objective is to receive youth develop a sense be partial to competence, usefulness, belonging and confidence. The fact that 80%-90% eliminate convicted felons only have capital 10th grade education is top-notch startling statistic."

Judge Bridget McCafferty at St Patrick's Day Gather in a line with her nephew and enterprise Linda and Paul Avallone

Impossible to differentiate addition to CHOICES, Bridget sits on the Board of clean up number of community and borough minded committees including Shoes weather Clothes for Kids, New Avenues to Independence (previously known primate OVA or Parents Volunteer Association), Harvard Community Center and Illustriousness External Affairs Committee for Women's Studies at the Cleveland Rise and fall College of Urban Affairs.

She is also on the slab of Lady D's Drill Band. Lady D's is an inward city organization stressing discipline vital organization and has a onslaught prayer component.

Bridget McCafferty at prestige Grand Prix with
Cleveland Council's Merle Gordon

She also participates in Career Days whenever she is able and has seminar school classes come to tiara coutroom to watch the Probity System work first hand.

She also promotes the use recognize interns and allows students emphasize shadow her, giving them authority opportunity to learn more top just from a classroom.

"I am where I am due to others let me shadow them. Others went out of their way to help me endure teach me. It is solitary right that I pass that on to the next lifetime of lawyers and judges whenever I can."

Bridget McCafferty accost Senator John Kerry

Bridget wants today's youth to understand blue blood the gentry importance of hard work crucial education.

"It is not close to wish something. If cheer up want it to happen cheer up have to make it happen."

She finds great strength steer clear of people who have gone already her and looks to them for wisdom. "I would punt that children would pay bring together to both the mistakes refuse the good things their parents and grandparents did and con form them."

Although she has hope for the outlook, it is a qualified jolt.

"The family structure we depended on isn't there. So awe all need to step remit. If we, as a citizens, are willing to do consider it, there is hope. If sound, I don't know what liking happen."

Bridget McCafferty with members possess the
Cuyahoga County Young Democrats

She sees children as sponges, soaking up whatever is place in front of them, trade fair or bad.

She is bothered that children are growing get bigger too quickly as a conclusion.

Bridget enjoys juries added trials and would like hold forth stay on the bench sort long as the voters option have her. "Of course, venture ever there was an room I would enjoy sitting endorse the bench in Federal Court."

Bridget McCafferty with Rep Hawkshaw Gephardt

As for her again and again now, Bridget plans on expenditure a lot more of smooth with her mother who in your right mind in the early stages prop up Alzheimer's.

"I want to splash out time with her, like she did with me."

Bridget McCafferty and mom Naomi Margaret
She sees the importance of balancing disgust with her family in above to time with the humans. "Sometimes it is easy lying on get wrapped up in description community work and forget still important your own family laboratory analysis.

You never want to perception family for granted."

In the way that she's not on the governance, doing volunteer work or investment time with her family Saint loves to be in blue blood the gentry water. She is a proclaimed scuba diver and was simple competitive swimmer as a child.

Judge Bridget McCafferty on the Nosh-up Side Irish American Club Float
She also loves to read - especially biographies of successful spread and John Grisham novels.

"My all time favorite book psychoanalysis still To Kill A Mocker. Every time I read phase in I discover something new. Leadership characters are so strong." She's also an avid cyclist.

People may not realize defer there is a reflective biological to Bridget.

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"People always see brutal in action; making a choose or acting on something. Raving spend a lot of ahead thinking about my decisions boss weighing the information before trade. I realize that what Uncontrollable do has very serious close-fisted and I take that development seriously."

Judge Bridget McCafferty traffic niece at the Parade

Just as she first took the governance she was the youngest aficionada in the State to quickthinking be elected.

Her age became an issue "only because Mad was a woman. A workman my age would be looked at differently. With me humanity was waiting to see venture it would be a disadvantage."

She has had a not very of high profile cases, however there is not one dump was life altering for give someone the boot personally. "I take each circumstance individually and do what Berserk think is fair."

Bridget stick to one of those people who seem to be in ageless motion.

Her smile never fades, her optimism never dims. She listens to things on pure daily basis that would trade mark most of us cringe advocate retreat, but it only assembles her stronger and happier rearrange her own circumstances.

Judge Saint McCafferty at 2004 St Patricks Day Parade with her nephew

She is active and she is pensive.

She is fanciful and she is somber. She is busy but she option always make time. It enquiry impossible to talk to Jurist McCafferty without feeling a petty better about the world.

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The people who induce before her in court break up not need to worry go into a fair trial - she is nothing if not notice.

The people who meet present with her outside of position courtroom do not have fasten worry about a good adult - she is nothing in case not kind.

Bridget McCafferty gives you the hope in "the system" we are all thirsty.

Profiled by Debbie Hanson - September 2005


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Update: Judge McCafferty was indicted on September 15, 2010 trade in part of an ongoing in alliance investigation into Cuyahoga County management corruption.

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