Martha Good for Court of Appeals

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Martha Good's lifetime of experience as a lawyer, mediator, educator, community leader and mother make her uniquely qualified to serve on the Ohio Court of Appeals, First District.

An attorney with extensive experience working in state and federal courts, Martha is well-known to judges, attorneys and court personnel and familiar with court procedures and policies. Martha was law clerk for U.S. District Judge David O. Porter before her association with one of Cincinnati's premier law firms, Frost & Jacobs. During six years as Circuit Mediator for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Martha held settlement conferences in over 1200 cases, resolving hundreds of them. She also has been an arbitrator for the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. In private practice and as a contract public defender, Martha has represented many people in Hamilton County Common Pleas, Municipal, Domestic Relations and Juvenile Courts.

An educator for over 15 years, Martha is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University where she teaches American Politics and Diversity, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, and Women and the Law. Martha was named Professor of the Year by her first year Property students at Dayton School of Law in 1992. Martha has also taught at St. Xavier High School and for Cincinnati Public Schools. She belongs to the American Association of University Professors and is a former member of Cincinnati Federation of Teachers.

An active community leader, Martha was PTA President, Parent Board member, soccer coach, science fair judge, newsletter editor, and general volunteer at Kilgour and Walnut Hills High School for 20 years. Currently President of the Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Board Martha has also presided over the Parent Advisory Board of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. She has also worked or volunteered for Dress for Success Cincinnati, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Contemporary Arts Center and Cincinnati Historical Society. A member of the Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus, National Organization of Women, Women's Campaign Forum, Amnesty International and American Civil Liberties Union, Martha actively promotes women's rights. Recently Martha began volunteering as a court advocate for Women Helping Women.

A descendant of Jakob Gut, a baker who emigrated from Austria to Over-the-Rhine in 1869, Martha has always called Ohio her home. She graduated from Akron's Firestone High School where she was student council vice-president and editor of the school newspaper and yearbook. Martha's maternal grandfather, Charlie Hoover, a graduate of Marietta College, worked at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Akron for 40 years. Martha's paternal grandfather Fred Good started a plumbing and heating supply company, Good Supply & Equipment Company, where Martha got her first summer job.

After graduating from Skidmore College with Honors in Government, Martha earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University. In 1981 Martha settled in Cincinnati when her husband was hired to teach at UC's College-Conservatory of Music. She was one of the first Arthur Russell Morgan Fellows of the Urban Morgan Institute of Human Rights at Cincinnati's College of Law. In 1985 she graduated #1 in her law school class after earning prizes for achieving the highest grade in several courses and being inducted into Order of the Coif. During law school Martha was an editor of both University of Cincinnati Law Review and Human Rights Quarterly in which four of her articles were published.

Martha's three children were all born and raised in Cincinnati; they are all graduates of Walnut Hills High School.

Jacob earned degrees from Oberlin College and Yale University before joining the award-winning Vinca String Quartet. A violist, Jacob also performs with the New Haven Symphony and other orchestras throughout New England; he is a proud member of American Federation of Musicians Local #234.
Peter is also an Oberlin College graduate who lives in Northside. Peter's CDs of his original music, Spiral Eyes and I Woke with Planets in My Face have received wide-spread praise. According to Magnet magazine, "the best analogue for Adams' talent is someone like Paul McCartney circa Ram."
Elizabeth was valedictorian of her Walnut Hills class; she recently graduated from Harvard with a Government major and a minor in Classics. Also an accomplished violist, Elizabeth traveled to Korea with the Harvard Orchestra to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the orchestra's founding. She has also been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival and spent three summers at Interlochen Arts Camp.


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Sign Up For Our Newsletter Please enter all fields (all are required) and click 'Subscribe'	Welcome Martha Good's lifetime of experience as a lawyer, mediator, educator, community leader and mother make her uniquely qualified to serve on the Ohio Court of Appeals, First District. An attorney with extensive experience working in state and federal courts, Martha is well-known to judges, attorneys and court personnel and familiar with court procedures and policies. Martha was law clerk for U.S. District Judge David O. Porter before her association with one of Cincinnati's premier law firms, Frost & Jacobs. During six years as Circuit Mediator for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Martha held settlement conferences in over 1200 cases, resolving hundreds of them. She also has been an arbitrator for the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. In private practice and as a contract public defender, Martha has represented many people in Hamilton County Common Pleas, Municipal, Domestic Relations and Juvenile Courts. An educator for over 15 years, Martha is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University where she teaches American Politics and Diversity, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, and Women and the Law. Martha was named Professor of the Year by her first year Property students at Dayton School of Law in 1992. Martha has also taught at St. Xavier High School and for Cincinnati Public Schools. She belongs to the American Association of University Professors and is a former member of Cincinnati Federation of Teachers. An active community leader, Martha was PTA President, Parent Board member, soccer coach, science fair judge, newsletter editor, and general volunteer at Kilgour and Walnut Hills High School for 20 years. Currently President of the Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Board Martha has also presided over the Parent Advisory Board of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. She has also worked or volunteered for Dress for Success Cincinnati, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Contemporary Arts Center and Cincinnati Historical Society. A member of the Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus, National Organization of Women, Women's Campaign Forum, Amnesty International and American Civil Liberties Union, Martha actively promotes women's rights. Recently Martha began volunteering as a court advocate for Women Helping Women. A descendant of Jakob Gut, a baker who emigrated from Austria to Over-the-Rhine in 1869, Martha has always called Ohio her home. She graduated from Akron's Firestone High School where she was student council vice-president and editor of the school newspaper and yearbook. Martha's maternal grandfather, Charlie Hoover, a graduate of Marietta College, worked at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Akron for 40 years. Martha's paternal grandfather Fred Good started a plumbing and heating supply company, Good Supply & Equipment Company, where Martha got her first summer job. After graduating from Skidmore College with Honors in Government, Martha earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University. In 1981 Martha settled in Cincinnati when her husband was hired to teach at UC's College-Conservatory of Music. She was one of the first Arthur Russell Morgan Fellows of the Urban Morgan Institute of Human Rights at Cincinnati's College of Law. In 1985 she graduated #1 in her law school class after earning prizes for achieving the highest grade in several courses and being inducted into Order of the Coif. During law school Martha was an editor of both University of Cincinnati Law Review and Human Rights Quarterly in which four of her articles were published. Martha's three children were all born and raised in Cincinnati; they are all graduates of Walnut Hills High School. Jacob earned degrees from Oberlin College and Yale University before joining the award-winning Vinca String Quartet. A violist, Jacob also performs with the New Haven Symphony and other orchestras throughout New England; he is a proud member of American Federation of Musicians Local #234. Peter is also an Oberlin College graduate who lives in Northside. Peter's CDs of his original music, Spiral Eyes and I Woke with Planets in My Face have received wide-spread praise. According to Magnet magazine, "the best analogue for Adams' talent is someone like Paul McCartney circa Ram." Elizabeth was valedictorian of her Walnut Hills class; she recently graduated from Harvard with a Government major and a minor in Classics. Also an accomplished violist, Elizabeth traveled to Korea with the Harvard Orchestra to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the orchestra's founding. She has also been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival and spent three summers at Interlochen Arts Camp.