28 Facts About Jennifer Brunner

Jennifer Lee Brunner was born on February 5,1957 and is an American attorney, politician, and judge.

Jennifer Brunner is currently an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, a position to which she was elected after serving as a judge on the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals.

Jennifer Brunner was born in Springfield, Ohio and raised in Columbus, Ohio.

Subsequently, Jennifer Brunner worked in the Ohio Secretary of State's Office as a deputy director and legislative counsel to the Ohio General Assembly during the administration of Sherrod Brown from 1983 to 1987, working with state legislators on finance-reporting laws for campaign committees and laws for election procedures.

From 1988 to 2000, Jennifer Brunner maintained a statewide law practice focusing on election law and campaign finance.

Jennifer Brunner litigated various ballot propositions in her private practice, including propositions involving alcohol sales, tax levies, rezoning, and gambling.

Jennifer Brunner represented several Ohio politicians in disputes involving redistricting and false statements in campaign literature.

In 1995, Jennifer Brunner applied for a vacant seat on the Columbus City Council, but was not selected.

In 2000, Jennifer Brunner was elected to an unexpired term on the Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Jennifer Brunner resigned from the Court on September 1,2005 to run for Ohio Secretary of State.

Jennifer Brunner ran unopposed in the May 2,2006 Democratic Primary.

Jennifer Brunner's campaign received support from the Secretary of State Project, a progressive political action committee.

Jennifer Brunner established the Voting Right Institute to improve voter access to elections in Ohio.

Jennifer Brunner worked to shield social security information and other private information from public view for millions of online records and coordinated with the Ohio General Assembly to prevent the filing of private information.

In September 2007, Jennifer Brunner announced plans to identify and correct security and reliability problems with voting machines in advance of March 4,2008 Ohio Democratic and Republican primaries.

Jennifer Brunner advocated the replacement of all Ohio voting machines with paper ballots counted by optical scanning machines, although the Ohio General Assembly did not provide funding to switch to paper ballots for the November 2008 general election.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against Jennifer Brunner, deciding that extra steps must be taken to authenticate these registrants.

Jennifer Brunner's order was challenged in state and federal court by Ohio Republican Party officials and Republican voters, who argued that Ohio law requires voters to be registered for 30 days before they cast an absentee ballot.

On February 17,2009, Jennifer Brunner announced that she would be a candidate for the US Senate in 2010, running against Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher for the Democratic nomination.

Jennifer Brunner was certified as the sole Democratic candidate running for the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals seat occupied by incumbent judge Amy O'Grady, who was appointed to the seat by Governor John Kasich in 2013.

Jennifer Brunner was the only Democratic nominee for the appellate seat.

Jennifer Brunner defeated O'Grady and was elected to a two-year term as Franklin County appeals judge unexpired term in the General Election.

On June 8,2021, Jennifer Brunner announced her candidacy for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in the November 8,2022, general election.

Jennifer Brunner worked with the United States Agency for International Development as a consultant on campaign finance, elections, and ballot issues in the Republic of Serbia during 2012 and 2013, assisting the Serbian Minister of Justice with judicial reform.

Jennifer Brunner served as an adviser to Serbian misdemeanor court judges as part of its Judicial Reform and Government Accountability project on outreach strategies to rebuild the public's confidence in elections systems and to better detect and prevent corruption in the government.

Jennifer Brunner served as an international election observer in Egypt for the 2014 Egyptian constitutional referendum.

Jennifer Brunner is an alumna of Whetstone High School in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.

In March 2008, Brunner was awarded the Profile in Courage Award by the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum for challenging the reliability of electronic voting in order to protect the right to vote in Ohio.