Michele L. Young

Michele Young is a 2024 USA Today Ohio Woman of the Year and a 2020 Cincinnati Enquirer Woman of the Year. She is also the 2020 Cincinnati Bar Association Julia A. Stautberg Honoree.

A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, a former adjunct law professor, a law clerk to three federal judges including the Hon. George Edwards, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Sixth Circuit, and co-author of a law book for the American Bar Association, Ms. Young considers it an honor to redress each and every injustice and to serve the legal needs of each individual in need of help.

Her lawyering is distinguished by an emphasis on innovativeness, integrity, non-stop hard work, and heart. She takes great pride in solving what appears to be an unsolvable legal problem.

Michele Young worked with an all-star team of legislators and scientists so every Ohio woman now has a chance for early screening of breast cancer through the passage of HB 357.

She represented the father and is part of the civil team that brought justice to the family of Gabriel Taye, the 8-year-old who committed suicide after being brutally bullied. The case settled for 3 million dollars, requires changes in the way bullying is handled throughout the Cincinnati Public School system, and will protect many children's lives.

Michele was part of the pro-bono effort to free Tyra Patterson on Christmas Day 2018 for a crime she did not commit after 23 years in prison.

Michele Young's Don't Text and Drive campaign reached hundreds of thousands of homes weekly through television, in partnership with CBS Local 12, CW, and Star 64, for years.

Ms. Young received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus for her pioneering work bringing minority women into the political realm.