Lou D’Apolito sworn in as new Mahoning County judge

YOUNGSTOWN — After taking the oath of office as a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judge, longtime defense and personal injury lawyer Lou D’Apolito thanked the many other D’Apolito family members in the community whose good reputations helped him get elected this year.

Judge D’Apolito, speaking today to the crowd in the Mahoning County Courthouse rotunda, thanked “my cousins, my uncles, aunts — for living the kinds of lives they have, for setting the example for us — we cousins and we nephews — because without them doing that over these years, I wouldn’t be standing here today.”

He defeated the incumbent judge, Timothy E. Franken, and two others, in the primary election and had no opponent in last month’s general election.

Gov. Ted Strickland appointed Franken to the position after Maureen A. Cronin retired in 2007. Judge D’Apolito’s term runs through the end of 2012.

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