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January 9, 2009

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GC lawyer Tedd Nesbit running for district judge



Grove City lawyer Tedd Nesbit has announced plans to run for the district judge seat for the eastern part of Mercer County.

Nesbit, 41, is cross-filing on the Democratic and Republican tickets to pick up the seat vacated by District Judge Lawrence Silvis. If elected, he would serve a six-year term.

Nesbit graduated from Grove City schools and graduated magna cum laude from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Florida State University and has worked as a lawyer since 2005.

He and his wife Shannon have two children.

Silvis’ former seat is being covered by a temporary judge, David Fish. The judgeship encompasses Grove City, Jackson Center, New Lebanon, Sandy Lake and Stoneboro and Deer Creek, French Creek, Jackson, Lake, Liberty, Mill Creek, New Vernon, Pine, Sandy Lake, Wolf Creek and Worth townships.

Pymatuning police chief seeking DJ seat



John R. Miller, Pymatuning Township’s police chief, has announced he’s running for district judge of the Greenville area.

Miller, 59, lives in Pymatuning Township with his wife Gayle. He’s cross-filing on the Democratic and Republican ballots for the six-year term, which was vacated Dec. 31 by the retirement of William L. Fagley.

Miller is a 1967 graduate of Greenville High School and received his bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from the University of Findlay in Ohio. He worked as a substitute teacher for Reynolds, Greenville and Jamestown school districts in 1971.

He became a patrolman for the Pymatuning Township police department in 1971 and was promoted to chief in 1983. Miler also worked for the Mercer County Narcotics Unit from 1974 to 1976, when he graduated from the FBI National Academy, Quantico, Va.

Hempfield Township Police Chief Brian Arthur is also running for the seat. Arthur, 43, of Hempfield Township, is cross-filing.

The judgeship covers Greenville, Jamestown and Clark and the townships of Greene, West Salem, South Pymatuning, Pymatuning, Hempfield and Sugar Grove. Senior District Judge Ruth French is filling the post temporarily.

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