Jennifer Lee Brunner was born on February 5,1957 and is an American attorney, politician and judge.
95 Facts About Jennifer Brunner
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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 Ohio's Tenth District Court of Appeals.
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On June 8,2021, Brunner announced her candidacy for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in the November 8,2022, general election.
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Jennifer Brunner is a member of the Democratic Party who served as the Ohio Secretary of State; Jennifer Brunner was the first woman to serve in this capacity.
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Jennifer Brunner took office after sixteen years of Republican control, which included two four-year terms by her predecessor J Kenneth Blackwell, who oversaw the 2000 and 2004 United States elections.
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Jennifer Brunner served only a single term as Secretary of State.
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Jennifer Brunner owned her own private practice; during her private practice career, she focused on election law and campaign finance law.
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Jennifer Brunner represented a broad range of candidates, businesses, political parties and committees before the Ohio Elections Commission on quasi-criminal matters.
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Jennifer Brunner's efforts focused on correcting the procedural election difficulties that Ohio was known for.
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Jennifer Brunner argued policy regarding same day voting, privacy of social security information, and foreclosure-related voter eligibility.
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Jennifer Brunner announced on February 18,2014, that she was certified by the Franklin County Board of Elections as the Democratic candidate for the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals.
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Jennifer Brunner defeated incumbent Judge Amy O'Grady in the general election.
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Jennifer Brunner went on to win the general election on November 3,2020.
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Jennifer Brunner was born in Springfield, Ohio, and spent her formative years in Columbus, Ohio.
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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.
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In four years of service under Brown, Jennifer Brunner's responsibilities included working with state legislators on finance-reporting laws for campaign committees and laws for election procedures.
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Jennifer Brunner then began a statewide law practice where she worked on election law and campaign finance from 1988 to 2000.
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Jennifer Brunner briefly served as a member of the Franklin County Board of Elections, appointed by Republican Secretary of State, Bob Taft.
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In 1988, Jennifer Brunner represented the Ohio Pesticide Applicators for Responsible Regulation, when the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency held hearings about testing Ohio water supplies for pesticides that were not against federal regulations.
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Jennifer Brunner's clients, including lawn care chemical companies, agreed that testing standards should be higher, but that such standards should not be mandated.
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Jennifer Brunner expressed an interest in public service when a seat on the Columbus City Council became available following the April 29,1988 death of John R Maloney.
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Jennifer Brunner was treasurer of a citizens group that attacked the financial reports related to a Westerville, Ohio school district tax levy on the November 1988 ballot.
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Jennifer Brunner represented Ohioans Against Casino Gambling in its dispute over the wording of the 1990 ballot issue on "games of chances".
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Jennifer Brunner was involved in a drawn out case involving the rights of Hamilton County bars to serve alcohol in glass containers.
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Jennifer Brunner challenged petition signatures on a similar matter in Franklin County.
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Meanwhile, Jennifer Brunner won another related case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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In 1992, Franklin County Democratic Party chairwoman Fran Ryan approached Jennifer Brunner about becoming a judge, but Jennifer Brunner declined.
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Jennifer Brunner got her clients a September 1994 ruling that the poll workers had, in fact, attempted to influence voters.
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In 1994, Jennifer Brunner represented neighbors of an adult video store that was being razed to make way for a McDonald's store in an affluent neighborhood.
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Jennifer Brunner obtained a 14-day restraining order to halt issuance of a zoning certificate and demolition and building permits.
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Jennifer Brunner got citizens to appear before the zoning appeals board to attempt to stop the construction.
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In 1995, Jennifer Brunner again applied for a vacant seat on the Columbus City Council.
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That year, Jennifer Brunner represented the AFL-CIO in their battle against proposed rule changes related to new Ohio campaign finance laws.
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Jennifer Brunner successfully represented Franklin County Democratic Party Chairman Dennis White in a 1996 case about whether his primary campaign mailings violated Ohio election laws.
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Jennifer Brunner was involved in a residency challenge in 1996.
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Jennifer Brunner represented a Seneca County constituent of then State Representative Karen Gillmor who felt the Franklin County home where Gillmor's family resides is her true residence.
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Jennifer Brunner was involved in a hanging chad controversy when in a 14,696-ballot November 4,1997 election in Licking County an income tax issue which had failed by four votes subsequently passed by thirteen on a November 26 automatic recount.
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Jennifer Brunner represented the Save The Doves Committee, an animal rights group that attempted to ban the hunting of mourning doves in Ohio via a ballot initiative.
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Jennifer Brunner represented pro-gambling interests in an off-track betting ballot issue in Stark County.
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Jennifer Brunner appealed the Board's decision to allow the voters the chance to overrule the city council.
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Jennifer Brunner felt Montgomery should have been disqualified in the election.
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Jennifer Brunner represented a pair of judge candidates who were charged with misconduct during the 1998 elections.
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Jennifer Brunner was able to get charges dismissed against Judge Deborah P O'Neill of Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
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Jennifer Brunner represented Northland Mall owner in his attempts to block funding for roads to the planned Polaris Fashion Place mall.
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Jennifer Brunner's client was able to get a ballot issue placed to oppose the special financing.
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In one of her final cases in private practice, Jennifer Brunner returned to represent interested parties in Bexley.
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In 2000, Jennifer Brunner was elected to an unexpired term on the Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
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Jennifer Brunner started the court in April 2004 after several years of research.
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Jennifer Brunner had ruled that a three-person commission review contracts instead of just the commission's director, Randall Fischer.
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Jennifer Brunner was involved in a controversy for jailing a lawyer who she claimed was in contempt of court that resulted in op-ed page debate.
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Jennifer Brunner resigned from the Court on September 1,2005, to run for Secretary of State.
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Jennifer Brunner ran unopposed in the May 2,2006 Democratic Primary.
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Jennifer Brunner received significant support from the Secretary of State Project, which "helped me toward the election".
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In September 2007, Jennifer Brunner announced extensive efforts to identify and correct serious problems with the security and reliability of voting machines in time for the March 4,2008 Ohio Democratic and Republican primaries.
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Jennifer Brunner has advocated the replacement of all Ohio voting machines, including the direct-recording electronic touch-screen ones used in more than 50 of Ohio's 88 counties.
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Jennifer Brunner mandated a paper ballot election for the November 2008 general election.
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Consequently, Jennifer Brunner focussed on addressing the procedures instead of the inherent lack of technical security.
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In January 2007, Jennifer Brunner proposed a plan that would allow counties to recruit poll workers by mail, who would then undertake two paid training days, and work a paid eight-hour shift at the polls on Election Day.
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Jennifer Brunner has established the Voting Right Institute to improve voter access to elections in Ohio.
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Jennifer Brunner has moved 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.
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Jennifer Brunner claimed that in Clermont and Summit Counties ballots ran out because of the number of Republicans who voted in the Democratic primary and that only Democratic ballots ran out.
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Jennifer Brunner has spoken out against election officials taking voting machines home with them in the days before an election.
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Jennifer Brunner says poll workers have sometimes cast ballots on machines in their homes.
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Jennifer Brunner ordered segregation of same-day-registration ballots and verification of them before counting them on Election Day, November 4,2008.
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Jennifer Brunner prevailed in the appellate court which ruled that the district court "abused its discretion" in granting the restraining order.
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Van Susteren interpreted the ruling as a statement that Jennifer Brunner has not been taking sufficient steps to prevent voter fraud.
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The ruling means that Jennifer Brunner can instruct the 88 county boards of elections to ignore public record requests by the Ohio Republican Party made to challenge registrants with information mismatched between their registration and their driver's license or social security number.
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Jennifer Brunner warned all election boards that involvement in a foreclosure is not, by itself, sufficient basis for challenging enfranchisement.
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On entering office, Brunner took immediate action against Republican county elections officials, including Robert T Bennett, Ohio Republican Party Chairman.
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Jennifer Brunner is suing Diebold for other types of vote-dropping malfunctions.
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Jennifer Brunner feels that electronic machines should be avoided until they achieve the same security standards as the computer equipment in the banking and communications industries.
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Jennifer Brunner has made several specific efforts to alleviate some of the past voting difficulties.
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Jennifer Brunner has noted that only incarcerated convicted felons become ineligible to vote in Ohio.
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In fall of 2008, Jennifer Brunner was challenged in a pair of cases involving the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless.
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On October 20,2008, Jennifer Brunner had to temporarily shut down the Ohio Secretary of State website after it was hacked.
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At the time of the announcement Ohio Governor Ted Strickland noted that Jennifer Brunner has been the subject of threats and Jennifer Brunner noted that her office has been assaulted with threats and actual delivery of abuse.
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In November 2008, Jennifer Brunner became involved in a legal battle against two Steve Stivers supporters that relates to the validity of a 1000 provisional ballots in the race for Ohio's 15th congressional district that at the time of recounting had a 149-vote margin and 27,000 absentee ballots to be counted.
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Jennifer Brunner's name was mentioned as a potential Democratic candidate for the seat.
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On February 17,2009, Jennifer Brunner announced that she would be a candidate for the US Senate in 2010.
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In September 2009, DSCC Chairman Bob Menendez, who supported Fisher and had been trying to clear the field for him, stated he would actively work against any underfunded candidate, in which Jennifer Brunner eventually responded "I'm not scared of you" at a fundraiser in Washington DC in December of that year.
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Jennifer Brunner's budget-spirited campaign employed "Rosie the Riveter" imagery and the use of an old school bus called "The Courage Express" to travel across the state.
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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.
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Jennifer Brunner was the only Democratic nominee for the appellate seat, running against incumbent judge Amy O'Grady.
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Jennifer Brunner defeated O'Grady and was elected to a two-year term as Franklin County appeals judge unexpired term in the General Election.
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On June 8,2021, Jennifer Brunner announced her candidacy for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in the November 8,2022, general election.
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Jennifer Brunner worked with the United States Agency for International Development of the US Department of State as a consultant on campaign finance, elections, and ballot issues in the Republic of Serbia during 2012.
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Jennifer Brunner served as an adviser to Serbian misdemeanor court judges on outreach strategies to rebuild the public's confidence in elections systems.
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Jennifer Brunner has been engaged to serve as an adviser through USAID four times, with a trip to Serbia in 2013 assisting the Serbian Minister of Justice with judicial reform.
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Jennifer Brunner served as an international election observer in Egypt for the 2014 Egyptian constitutional referendum.
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Judge Jennifer Brunner is a Member of the Board of Advisors of the Berlin, Prague and Sydney-based Global Panel Foundation - a respected NGO which works behind-the-scenes in conflict areas around the world.
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Jennifer Brunner is an alumna of Whetstone High School in Clintonville, Ohio.
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Jennifer Brunner served on the Ohio Student Loan Commission, a nine-member group that guarantees loans for college students, for a term that ended in 1992.
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In March 2008, Brunner was given the Profile in Courage Award by the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
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Jennifer Brunner earned the award for challenging the reliability of electronic voting in order to protect the right to vote in Ohio.
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Jennifer Brunner assumed office in 2007 and ordered paper ballots be provided to any voter who requested one in the March 2008 primary and called for the replacement of all the state's electronic voting systems by the November 2008 presidential election.