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'''Tyrone Keith Yates''' (born January 22, 1954) is a Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge. He was elected on November 8, 2011.
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'''Tyrone K. Yates''' is a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[Ohio House of Representatives]], representing the 33rd District since [[2003]].

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Judge Yates is a former [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[Ohio House of Representatives]], representing the 33rd District from 2003-2010.<ref name="GWW bio">{{cite web
|url = http://www.georgewashingtonwilliams.org/Legislators.aspx?publicOfficialId=93
|title = Tyrone Yates
|work = African-American Legislators: Those Who Followed
|access-date = 2011-01-03
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120304002226/http://www.georgewashingtonwilliams.org/Legislators.aspx?publicOfficialId=93
|archive-date = 2012-03-04}}</ref>

==Early life==
Yates was born in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] and graduated from [[Withrow High School]] in 1972. He was voted Most Likely to Succeed, Best School Citizen and Boy Mayor of Cincinnati in 1971.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Ober|first=Zachary|title=Withrow High School: A Brief Synopsis of 100 Years at - To Its Alums - the Most Beautiful High School in Ohio|url=http://www.livingmagazines.com/2019/06/withrow-high-school-brief-synopsis-of.html|access-date=2020-10-22|website=The Living Magazines}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree in history from the [[University of Cincinnati]] in 1978 and a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] from the [[University of Toledo College of Law]] in March 1981. While in law school he was a Fornoff Moot Court semifinalist, a member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, was elected to the Moot Court Board and was an intern in the White House Office of the Executive Office of the president in the summer of 1979. Yates was also a member of the Order of Barristers and was elected to the governing board of the law school. Yates served as co-chair of the BALSA at UT Law School.<ref name="GWW bio"/><ref name=":0" /> While at the University of Cincinnati, Yates served as student body president and student representative to the UC's board of trustees. He was UBA's senator to the university senate.<ref>{{Cite book|last=McCarty|first=Mary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SR8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA151|title=Cincinnati City Council Candidates A Guide|publisher=Cincinnati Magazine|year=1987|pages=151|language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Yates is a former assistant attorney general of Ohio <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=5 November 2019|title=Cincinnati Election Results: Municipal Court Races|url=https://www.citybeat.com/news/blog/21095996/cincinnati-election-results-municipal-court-races|access-date=2020-10-22|website=CityBeat Cincinnati|language=en}}</ref> and former Associate at White, Getgey, and Meyer Co., LPA.

Tyrone K. Yates was selected twice to serve as vice-mayor of Cincinnati and served as a member of Cincinnati City Council from 1990 to 1999.<ref name=":1" /> In the 1997 election, he was endorsed by both the Democratic Party of Hamilton County and the Charter Committee of Greater Cincinnati.

While a trial counsel in the Juvenile Division of the Hamilton County Public Defender's Office (2000-2003), Yates served as chairman of Cincinnati's Citizens Committee on Youth (2002).


Yates is a former treasurer and president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and chairman of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation. In 2008, Yates served as chairman of the Local Host Blue Ribbon Committee for the NAACP National Convention. He was elections chairman for the Ohio State Conference of the NAACP in 2008.
A Cincinnati native, Representative Yates is a 1972 graduate of Withrow High School. He is a 1978 graduate of the [[University of Cincinnati]] with a B.A. degree in History and holds the [[Juris Doctor]] degree from the [[University of Toledo College of Law]]. He has studied at both the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at Harvard and the [[Harvard Law School]] in executive programs. While an undergraduate and graduate student, Yates served on the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees as a Student Representative and was elected to the Governing Board of the University of Toledo College of Law. Yates won the University of Cincinnati's Jones Prize for Oratorical Excellence in 1978. Yates was a member of [[Cincinnati City Council]] from 1990 to 1999 and served as Vice-Mayor of Cincinnati for two terms.


He is a two-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention (2004 and 2008). In 2008, Yates was a delegate pledged to United States Senator Barack Obama.
Representative Yates is a former Senior Warden of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, a member of [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] Fraternity, Inc, UC honorary [[Sigma Sigma]], and is a Life member of the [[Navy League of the United States]], the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People (NAACP), and the American Angus (cattle) Association.


While in the Ohio House of Representatives, Yates served on the Finance and Appropriations, Ways and Means, Civil and Commercial Law, and Criminal Justice Committees. He chaired the Committee on Criminal Justice. He also served on the State Criminal Sentencing Commission. Yates was selected to serve as chairman of the eight-member bi-cameral Correctional Institution Inspections Committee. Yates served on the special legislative committee which was charged with recommending a distinguished Ohioan to be represented among the significant Americans in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. He is a former member of the [[Ohio Arts Council]] and a former adjunct associate professor of political science at the [[University of Cincinnati]].
Yates was a Delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.


In January 2010, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland appointed Yates to fill the unexpired term of Judge Nadine Lovelace Allen.
Yates is currently writing a book on the Kennedy Administration focusing on the admission of [[James Meredith]] to the [[University of Mississippi]] in 1962 "but the pace is very slow."


In 2019, Yates retained his seat on Hamilton County's municipal court for the second district, winning 74.48 percent of the vote.<ref name=":1" />
Yates serves on the Finance and Appropriations, Ways and Means, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Criminal Justice Committees. He also serves on the Ohio Arts Council, the State Criminal Sentencing Commission, and the Correctional Institutions Inspections Committee. Yates is a former President of the 17 Member Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and former Chairman of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation. Yates was the Chairman of the Local Host Committee for the very successful 2008 NAACP National Convention held in Cincinnati.


==Personal life==
Representative Yates sponsored House Bill 568 in 2008 which provides for the euthanizaton of all Pit Bulls in the State of Ohio.<ref>http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_568</ref>.
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Yates is a former junior and senior warden of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, a Life Member of the American Angus Association, the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, The Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, and the Navy League of the United States. He is a member of [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] fraternity, UC honorary [[Sigma Sigma]], and The Argus Club of Cincinnati, Incorporated.


Yates received the 2010 Myrl H. Shoemaker Award from the Ohio Democratic Party. In 2009, he received the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections Gold Star Award, the OACAA Don Striker Legislative Bulldog Award and the Oscar B. Griffith Leadership Award from Ohio Urban Resource Systems, Inc. He served on the boards of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and SOTENI International, Inc. (an international AIDS prevention foundation working in Kenya). Yates received the NAACP Theodore M. Berry Award for 2013. He is currently chairman of SOTENI Kenya based in Kenya, and senior warden of St. Andrews Episcopal Church.
== See also ==
[[Election Results, City Council of Cincinnati, Ohio]]


Yates is married to Karen L. Yates and has two children, Aiden and Clarke Sanders.
==External links==
*[http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/MemberDetails.jsp?DISTRICT=33 Ohio House of Representatives - Tyrone Yates] '''official OH House website'''
*[http://www.tyroneyates.com State Representative Tyrone K. Yates] '''official campaign website'''
*[http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=8396 Project Vote Smart - Representative Tyrone Yates (OH)] profile
*''Follow the Money'' - Tyrone Yates
**[http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=83698 2006] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=65393 2004] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=12567 2002] campaign contributions
*[http://www.olbc1967.org/ Ohio Legislative Black Caucus]


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Latest revision as of 22:38, 2 December 2024

Tyrone Yates
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 33rd district
In office
January 3, 2003 – February 5, 2010
Preceded bySamuel T. Britton
Succeeded byAlicia Reece
Personal details
Born (1954-01-22) January 22, 1954 (age 70)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Political partyDemocratic
ResidenceCincinnati, Ohio
Alma materUniversity of Cincinnati, University of Toledo
ProfessionAttorney, Educator

Tyrone Keith Yates (born January 22, 1954) is a Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge. He was elected on November 8, 2011.

Judge Yates is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 33rd District from 2003-2010.[1]

Early life

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Yates was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Withrow High School in 1972. He was voted Most Likely to Succeed, Best School Citizen and Boy Mayor of Cincinnati in 1971.[2] He received a B.A. degree in history from the University of Cincinnati in 1978 and a J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law in March 1981. While in law school he was a Fornoff Moot Court semifinalist, a member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, was elected to the Moot Court Board and was an intern in the White House Office of the Executive Office of the president in the summer of 1979. Yates was also a member of the Order of Barristers and was elected to the governing board of the law school. Yates served as co-chair of the BALSA at UT Law School.[1][2] While at the University of Cincinnati, Yates served as student body president and student representative to the UC's board of trustees. He was UBA's senator to the university senate.[3]

Career

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Yates is a former assistant attorney general of Ohio [4] and former Associate at White, Getgey, and Meyer Co., LPA.

Tyrone K. Yates was selected twice to serve as vice-mayor of Cincinnati and served as a member of Cincinnati City Council from 1990 to 1999.[4] In the 1997 election, he was endorsed by both the Democratic Party of Hamilton County and the Charter Committee of Greater Cincinnati.

While a trial counsel in the Juvenile Division of the Hamilton County Public Defender's Office (2000-2003), Yates served as chairman of Cincinnati's Citizens Committee on Youth (2002).

Yates is a former treasurer and president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus and chairman of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation. In 2008, Yates served as chairman of the Local Host Blue Ribbon Committee for the NAACP National Convention. He was elections chairman for the Ohio State Conference of the NAACP in 2008.

He is a two-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention (2004 and 2008). In 2008, Yates was a delegate pledged to United States Senator Barack Obama.

While in the Ohio House of Representatives, Yates served on the Finance and Appropriations, Ways and Means, Civil and Commercial Law, and Criminal Justice Committees. He chaired the Committee on Criminal Justice. He also served on the State Criminal Sentencing Commission. Yates was selected to serve as chairman of the eight-member bi-cameral Correctional Institution Inspections Committee. Yates served on the special legislative committee which was charged with recommending a distinguished Ohioan to be represented among the significant Americans in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. He is a former member of the Ohio Arts Council and a former adjunct associate professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati.

In January 2010, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland appointed Yates to fill the unexpired term of Judge Nadine Lovelace Allen.

In 2019, Yates retained his seat on Hamilton County's municipal court for the second district, winning 74.48 percent of the vote.[4]

Personal life

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Yates is a former junior and senior warden of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, a Life Member of the American Angus Association, the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, The Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, and the Navy League of the United States. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, UC honorary Sigma Sigma, and The Argus Club of Cincinnati, Incorporated.

Yates received the 2010 Myrl H. Shoemaker Award from the Ohio Democratic Party. In 2009, he received the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections Gold Star Award, the OACAA Don Striker Legislative Bulldog Award and the Oscar B. Griffith Leadership Award from Ohio Urban Resource Systems, Inc. He served on the boards of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and SOTENI International, Inc. (an international AIDS prevention foundation working in Kenya). Yates received the NAACP Theodore M. Berry Award for 2013. He is currently chairman of SOTENI Kenya based in Kenya, and senior warden of St. Andrews Episcopal Church.

Yates is married to Karen L. Yates and has two children, Aiden and Clarke Sanders.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Tyrone Yates". African-American Legislators: Those Who Followed. Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
  2. ^ a b Ober, Zachary. "Withrow High School: A Brief Synopsis of 100 Years at - To Its Alums - the Most Beautiful High School in Ohio". The Living Magazines. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  3. ^ McCarty, Mary (1987). Cincinnati City Council Candidates A Guide. Cincinnati Magazine. p. 151.
  4. ^ a b c "Cincinnati Election Results: Municipal Court Races". CityBeat Cincinnati. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
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