Tracie Hunter Removed

Tracie Hunter, a former Hamilton County, Ohio Juvenile Court judge, was indefinitely suspended from the practice of law by the Ohio Supreme Court on November 21, 2023, following her 2014 felony conviction. After a five-week jury trial, a jury found Hunter guilty of a fourth-degree felony — having an unlawful interest in a public contract — stemming from her conduct while sitting as a judge.

Ohio's Board of Professional Conduct found Hunter violated five separate rules of professional conduct in connection with the incident underlying her conviction; before the disciplinary hearing panel, Hunter denied violating the rules and maintained she had been wrongly convicted. The panel recommended, and the full Board and Supreme Court adopted, an indefinite suspension, giving Hunter credit for the roughly nine years she had already served under an interim suspension pending the disciplinary case's resolution.