OH SR328

Recognizes the Honorable Jean Murrell Capers for receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from YWCA Greater Cleveland on May 12, 2014

Honors Capers' 65+ year legal career including service as first African-American woman on Cleveland City Council, city prosecutor's office employee, assistant Ohio attorney general, and Cleveland Municipal Court judge from 1977 to 1986

Notes Capers retired from law practice in 2011 at age 98 and is the oldest living retired judge in Ohio

Commends Capers as a dynamic community leader and conscientious Ohioan whose record of personal and professional success serves as a model for others

Directs the Clerk of the Senate to transmit an authenticated copy of the resolution to Jean Murrell Capers