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Algenon L. Marbley, of Columbus, was appointed as a member of the OSU board of trustees by Governor Strickland to serve a nine-year term.  In 1997, he was appointed by President Clinton as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.  Prior to his appointment, he was a partner with the Columbus, Ohio office of the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, where he specialized in civil litigation with an emphasis on business litigation, product liability litigation, and employment litigation.  Before joining Vorys, Judge Marbley was an assistant general counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and had previously been an associate in the Chicago law firm of Montgomery and Holland. 

Judge Marbley serves on the boards of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Inc., the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing & Cultural Arts Complex, is chairman of the board of directors of the K.I.P.P. (Knowledge is Power Program) Central Ohio Charter School, and is a member of the board of directors of the African-American Leadership Academy.

He is an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and at the Harvard University Law School. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from the University of North Carolina and a juris doctor degree from Northwestern University. He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Capital University Law School.

Judge Marbley and his wife, Janet, and their two sons live in Columbus. 

Term: 5/31/2007-5/13/2016

06/2007

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