Judge Cheryl L. Waite is one of four judges elected to the Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals

Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals

The Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals is one of the 12 Ohio District Courts of Appeal, the state intermediate appellate courts of Ohio. It has jurisdiction over eight counties: Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning, Monroe, and Noble.When a lower court in one of those...

. She was first elected to the court in 1996, and re-elected to that bench in 2002. She served as presiding judge of this court starting in February 2003. She was the first woman elected to serve on the Seventh District Court of Appeals.

Born in 1959, she received her B.A. from Youngstown State University

Youngstown State University

Youngstown State University, founded in 1908, is an urban research university located in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. As of fall 2010, there were 15,194 students and a student-faculty ratio of 19:1. It is recognized as being one of the premier schools in the country, comparable to Ivy League...

 in 1982, and her law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

The Cleveland–Marshall College of Law is the law school of Cleveland State University, located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school traces its origins to the founding of Cleveland Law School in 1897 which, in 1946, merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become Cleveland–Marshall...

 in 1985.

Judge Waite was an Assistant Law Director for the City of Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County; it also extends into Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

in 1985, and served as the City's acting Risk Manager beginning in 1991 through 1996.