Greyt Big Talk w/ Michael Ryan
Transparency And Government
Our guest speaker is a truth seeker by trade, Judge Michael Ryan.
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Michael Ryan
Judge, Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals
Michael John Ryan is a judge on Ohio's Eighth District Court of Appeals, elected in November 2022. A Cleveland native, he went through the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Cleveland Heights High School, graduated from Allegheny College and earned his law degree at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
He began his career as an assistant prosecuting attorney for the City of Cleveland, then worked in private practice in criminal defense, personal injury, corporate, employment and municipal law. At 30 he became the youngest person ever appointed magistrate of Cleveland Municipal Court. He was elected to that court in 2005 and to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division, in 2012, serving about ten years there before joining the appeals court.
In 2015 he published The Least Likely: From the Housing Projects to the Courthouse, a memoir of his childhood in the inner city and his path to the bench. His honors include induction into the Cleveland Heights High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, Allegheny College's Gold Citation Award and the Archbishop James P. Lyke African American Male Image Award.
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Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44114
Cleveland Public Library's Main Library fills the downtown block of Superior Avenue between East 3rd and East 6th streets. The campus joins the 1925 Main Library building, designed by Cleveland architects Walker & Weeks, with the Louis Stokes Wing, completed in 1997, and the Eastman Reading Garden between them. Inside are Brett Hall's exhibit space, grand reading rooms, a Learning Commons and the subject departments of one of the largest public research libraries in the country. The library opened in 1869 as a public school library and was the first large public library to let people choose their own books straight from the shelves.
About this event
Our guest speaker is a truth seeker by trade, Judge Michael Ryan. He's a Cleveland native son and self published author of "The Least Likely" a personal memoir accounting his childhood in the inner city.