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Our dedicated supporters provide a strong base of resources for Legal Aid to continue securing justice in the Northeast Ohio area. Your steady support helps over 25,000 people with low incomes in over 7,000 cases annually and we are proud to call you a friend of Legal Aid. Consecutive year giving society members and other financial supporters are recognized in our Annual Reports.

The 1905 Society: Leave your legacy at Legal Aid through a deferred gift and join The 1905 Society. Read more about planned giving to Legal Aid here. 

Consecutive Year Giving Societies: Your consistent, generous support shows you believe in Legal Aid’s mission, and we are grateful for your partnership. With gratitude, we honor you through our consecutive year giving societies as listed below.

Giving Societies

Our Giving Societies: Your consistent, generous support shows you believe in Legal Aid’s mission, and we are grateful for your partnership. With gratitude, we honor you through our consecutive year giving societies. 

Recipients

The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 20 years or more as of 12/31/2023.

Anonymous (1)
Diane Citrino
Retired Judge Colleen Conway Cooney and John Cooney
David Goodman and Barbara Hawley
Judge Burt Griffin and Bunny Griffin
John and Susan Hersch
Lee and Candace Hutton
Anthony Konkoly
Wilbur Leatherberry and Diane Phillips-Leatherberry
Donald Levy
MJH Foundation
Gale and Gerald Messerman
Ivan Otto
Dorothy Reichenbach
Grant Segall
Charna Sherman
Todd Smith
Therese Sweeney Drake and James Drake
Mark Wallach and Karla Bell
David Weiner
Stephen and Lisa Weingrad
Jerome Weiss and Judith Salomon
Perdexter Williams

The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 15-19 years as of 12/31/2023.

Anonymous (5)
Ilah Adkins
David and Phyllis Alden
Jason and Shruti Aring
Kevin Barnes
Nancy M. Barnes, Esq.
Susan Beck
Todd and Stacey Behrens
Mark Belasic
Suzanne and Adam Blum
Jeff and Elaine Bomberger
Molly Brudnick
Judge Janet Burnside
Jennie Church
Magistrate Gregory Clifford and Karen Bryant-Clifford
Michele Connell
James Cooper and Dina Elboghdady
Colleen Cotter
Dale and Susan Cowan
Michael and Kim Cullers
Maureen Doerner and Geoffrey White
William Doll and Carolyn Buller
Carl Draucker and Claire Burke Draucker
Nadine and David Eames
Michael Elliott
Traci Ext and Loren Toplitz
Katherine Friedell
Retired Judge Stuart Friedman and Arthur Kane
Judge Nancy A. Fuerst and Dr. John F. Burke, Jr.
William Fulton and Jeffrey Duber
Stephen Gariepy and Nancy Sin
Kathleen Gharrity
Karen Giffen
Rosemary Gold
Steven and Gail Goldfarb
Bernard and Susan Goodman
Calvin Griffith
Brian Grube
Richard and Jessica Gurbst
Douglas and Dr. Judith Haas
Daniel Haymond
Stephanie and Bruce Hearey
William Heine and Kathy Moore
Ralph and Christine Higgins
Laura Hoag
David and Nancy Hooker
Herbert Hoppe, Jr.
Carl Jenks
Alana Jochum
Linda Johnson and R. Mark Jones
Candace Jones
Kerin Kaminski
Ellen Keller
Amy E. Kellogg
Matthew and Linda Klaben
Lenore Kleinman
John Kluznik and Jeanne Cunningham
Jules and Lani Koach
James and Sandra Koenig
William and Jeanne Kurtz
David and Martha Kutik
Stephen and Ellen Lazarus
David and Jennifer Lenz
James Lowe
Heather and Jason Lutz
Rita and Charles Maimbourg
Raymond and Nancy Malone
Richard Manoloff and Molly Clark
Jeffrey and Rosemary Margulies
Jeffrey Marks
Claire Robinson May and James May
Lynda and Charlie Mayer
Hugh and L. Sue McKay
Louise and Edward McKinney
Douglas and Jani McWilliams
Kathryn and Guy Mercer
Donald and Sally Messinger
P.J. Milligan and Dayna DePerro Milligan
Leslee and David Miraldi
Kenneth Moore and Cynthia Holland
Stanley and Paulette Morganstern
John and Mary Mulligan
Stephen and Bonnie O’Bryan
Richard and Jacqueline Panza
George Peters IV
Daniel Petricig and Greta Fifner
Richard and Alice Petrulis
John and Victoria Polito
R. Jeffrey Pollock and Martha Brandt Pollock
Julie Rabin Falck and Joel Falck
Sarah Rathke
Robert and Judith Rawson
Geoffrey and Molly Ritts
Maurice and Bernadette Salada
Patricia Scanlon
Charles and Linda Schaefer
Donald and Toni Scherzer
Brigitte Schiffer
Zach Schiller and Gail Long
Barbara and John Schubert
J. Gary Seewald
Ralph and Laura Skonce
Philip Star and Jane M. Peterson
Justice Melody Stewart
Judge Joan Synenberg and Roger Synenberg
Adrian Thompson
Brian Toohey and M. Elizabeth Monihan
Tracey Turnbull
Neil Vakharia and Michael Mumford
Hon. and Mrs. William F.B. Vodrey
George and Barbara von Mehren
Mary Warren
Mayor David E. Weiss
Stephen and Joan Werber
Dennis Wilcox and Shelley Kazan-Wilcox
Christopher Williams and Cynthia Mog
Cheryl Wills
Nicole Wilson
Robert Wolff and Paula Silverman
Margaret Wong
James and Kathleen Young
Richard and Marcie Zeiger

The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 10-14 years as of 12/31/2023.

Anonymous (14)
Jennifer and Daniel Adams
John Allerding
James and Karen Aronoff
Jurgita Ashley
Keith Ashmus
Steven and Elise Auvil
Clifford and Monica Babcock
Lynn Ballard
Geoffrey and Maryann Barnes
Blair Barnhart-Hinkle and William Hinkle
Brian and Megan Bash
Karl and Amanda Bekeny
Jodell Bender
Neil and Kavitha Bhagat
Councilperson Kim Bixenstine and Barton Bixenstine
Magistrate Stephen Blake
Howard and Deborah Bobrow
Kip and Catherine Bollin
Kenneth Bossin
Nicole Braden Lewis and Zach Lewis
Matthew Brady
Julie and Ben Brouhard
Leslie Brown
Donald and Sara Bulea
Eileen M. Burkhart
Thomas Butchko
Julie Callsen and Brad Pohlman
Jeremy and Brooke Campana
Peter and Rita Carfagna
Lawrence and Andrea Carlini
Erica Carpenter
Christopher and Kelley Caryl
Robert and Melanie Casarona
Michael and Christina Chase
Vincent and Carolyn Cheverine
Retired Magistrate Elaine Chimo
George Coakley
Thomas and Victoria Collin
John Corlett and Doug Van Auken
Lawrence Corman
Thomas and Maria Coyne
Michelle and Richard Creger
Julie and Joshua Crocker
Mallory Curran and Keith Romer
Eric and Jacquelyn Daniel
Marc Dann and Kathy Clingerman Dann
C. Lynne Day
Richard Dean
Gregory DeGulis
Maria Del Monaco
Kathleen DeMetz
Frank and Wendy DeSantis
Steven Dettelbach and Karil Bialostosky
Michael and Amy Diamant
Dominic and Julie DiPuccio
Susan Dirks
James Dixon
James and Sara Doan
Justice Michael Donnelly and Nancy Donnelly
William Doyle
J. Michael Drain, Jr.
Elizabeth Dreben and Hillel Chiel
Daniel and Paula Dreyfuss
Jeffrey and Amy Dunlap
Gary and Pamela Ebert
Sherry Epstein
Andrew and Leigh Fabens
Philip and Dana Fastenau
Stephen and Jennifer Fazio
Tom and Brooke Feher
Timothy Fiorta
Sarah Flannery and Philip Slaght
Robert and Laura Fogarty
Heidi and Will Friedman
Francis Fungsang
Richard and Robbin Garcia
Mark Gardner
Michael and Kathryn Garvey
Michael and Amy Garvin
Lisa Gasbarre Black
Leslie A. Gentile
Carol Gobel
Steven Goldberg
James Graham and David Dusek
Cathryn Greenwald
Patrick and Ruth Haggerty
John and Linda Hallbauer
Jeanne and Matthew Hammerstrom
James Henderson
Donald Herbe
Shelly Hillyer
Alan Hochheiser
Laura Kingsley Hong
Emily and William Hubbard
Maura Hughes
Laurie Humphrey
John Hutchinson
Jim and Terry Juliano
James Keating
Kris Keniray
Richard and Mary Kenney
William Kerner, Sr.
Eduardo and Jessica Kim
Elizabeth Kimmel
Reed King and Judith Fazekas King
John and Dolores Kirn
Jonathan and Abbie Klein
Adrienne Knauer
Dena Kobasic
Lee and Margery Koosed
Alan and Susie Kopit
Lee and Melissa Korland
Martin and Nancy Kosmin
Patrick Krebs
Deanna and Elroy Kursh
Julie Lady
Samuel and Deborah Laferty
Brian and Shelly Lamb
Dennis and Kim Lansdowne
Kenneth Lapine
Robert and Kathleen Lawry
Edward Leader
Thomas Lee
Richard and Polly Legenza
Alan and Barbara Lepene
Scott Lepene
Diane Leung
John and Diane Lewis
John and Cassandra Lewis
Raymond and Wendy Ling
Robert and Maureen Loesch
Janet Lowder and David Kinkaid
Lisa Lowe and Steven Denker
Michael Lyford and Sonja Rajki
Kevin and Sheila Margolis
Richard and Margaret Margolis
Dante Marinucci
Stephen and Nancy Markus
Mark and Karen McCarthy
Robert and Dorothy McDonald
John and Mary McGowan
Patrick and Martha McGraw
Conor and Mary McLaughlin
Brian McMahon
E. Sean Medina
Lesya Melnyk
Clifford Mendelsohn
Brian and Kristen Mikelbank
Brett Miller
Robyn Minter Smyers and Bertrand Smyers
Donna Mitchell
Ed and Kim Moore
Joseph Morford
Peter and Kristin Morrison
Marian Morton
Gordon and Barbara Moser
Norma Mudry
Patrick and Carlene Murphy
Douglas Musick
Matthew Nakon
Jenifer Novak and Timothy Spirko
Aaron O’Brien
Matthew O’Connell
Lawrence Oscar and Jeanne Shatten
Judge Diane M. Palos
Zack and Debby Paris
Drew Parobek
Jacqueline Pasek and Michael Quinlan
Patrick and Sharon Perotti
Rachel Perry
Stacey Picard and Mark Maus
Taylor Pierce and Eric Zell
Lori and Joseph Pinjuh
Susan Racey
Alexander and Allison Reich
Sonja Rice
Jennifer and Timothy Roach
Thomas and Grace Robenalt
Retired Judge Kenneth Rocco
Mark Rodio
Jan Roller and David Abbott
Barbara Roman and Richard Dorman
Ann Rowland and Gordon Kinder
Charles Royer
Judge Anthony Russo
Amy Ryder Wentz
Joel and Carie Sacco
Patricia Schraff and Jerry Micco
Nancy Schuster and David Cimperman
Karen Seawall and Greg Warren
Richard Selby II
J. Chris Sestak
Farhad Sethna
Terry Shilling
Harry Sigmier
Jill Smialek
Christine and Donald Snyder
Randall Solomon and Nancy Glick
David Sporar
Kathleen St. John
Christopher St. Marie
Susan Stephanoff and George Haddad
Robert and Juanita Storey
Jennifer Sullivan
K. James Sullivan and Gabrielle Brett
Annette and Mark Sutherland
Kevin Tabor
Jennifer Teeter and Ken Palko
David and Maryann Thomas
Chris and Aimee Thorman
James Timmerberg and Tiptunya Senaphadung
Judge Mary Jane Trapp
Representative Daniel Troy
Curtis and Marisa Tuggle
Roy and Deborah Turnell
Geoffrey Turoff
Michael Ungar and Deborah Warner
Nancy and Terrence Valentine
Rinda and John Vas
Jonathon and Andraea Vinocur
David Wallace and Sharon Sobol Jordan
Douglas and Holly Wang
James and Jessica Warren
Brandi Weekley
Rosie Wenstrup
Christopher Wick
Scott and Erica Wilkov
Amelia Workman Farago and Michael Farago
Michael Yaksic and Barbara Friedman Yaksic
Joseph Yonadi, Jr.
Sandra Zagarell
Eric and Amanda Zalud
Peter Zawadski
Ted and Diane Zawadski
Michael and Rachel Zbiegien
Robert and Eva Zunich
Tom and Beth Zych

The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 5-9 years as of 12/31/2023.

Anonymous (32)
Daniel Abrams and Nan Cohen
Nancy Adams
Anne Adamson
Harlin and Laura Adelman
Julie Adler Raskind and Peter Raskind
Joanie and Tom Adler
Jessica and Scott Allen
Joan U. Allgood
Joseph J. Allotta
Antoinette Anders
Kemper and Julianne Arnold
Brent and Ann Ballard
Matthew and Samantha Barbara
Thomas Barnard, Jr. and Laura Coen Barnard
John Batt and Mara Cushwa
Blake Beachler
Craig Beazer and Alicia Cintron
David Bell
Judge Richard Bell and Andrea Bell
Nancy Benacci
Virginia Benjamin
Cipriano and Gina Beredo
Jessica Berg
Karl Beus
William and Ann Beyer
R. Jeffrey and Kathleen Bixler
Darrell and Abigail Blanks
Dominic Bonacci
Chet Bonner
Anthony Brancatelli and Gail Glamm
James and Mary Bright
Peter and Ellen Brodhead
Carolyn Brown
Daniel Bryan
Kristin Bryan
Stephen Buffo
Patrick and Brandy Burke
Alexander and Jennifer Burlingame
Janet Burney
Alexander Campbell
Angela Carlin
Ruth Anna Carlson and Albert Leonetti
Maria Carr
Matt Carroll and Laura Kleinman
Elizabeth Cassella
Noelle Celeste
John Cernelich
Subodh Chandra and Meena Morey Chandra
Jillian Charles
Sarah and Andrew Cleves
Patrick Clunk
Quo Vadis Cobb
Julie Conrad
Alex and Michelle Constable
Steven Cook
Joseph Corsaro
Claudia Coulton and James Corrigan
Andrew Cox and Michelle Dietz
Kevin Cronin
David and Jennifer Cupar
Sarah and David D’Amore
Daniel DeMarco
Emily Drake
Kyle and Kevin Dreyfuss-Wells
Marcia Egbert and Jeff Hagan
Keven Eiber
S. Stuart Eilers
Gary Ellsworth
Deena and Dick Epstein
Jeffrey and Leah Epstein
Christopher Ermisch
Catherine and Bruce Fallick
F. Drexel Feeling
Robert and Marcia Fein
Sally Feldman
Rosalina Fini
Nancy Fioritto
Mark Fischer
Courtney Flowers
Richard Foote
Traci Forrester
Charles and Charlotte Fowler
Barry and Karen Freeman
James French
Michael French
Adam Fried
Steven and Lisa Friedman
Krista Gadzala
Michael Gall
Steven and Marilyn Garfunkel
Mary Anne Garvey and A.J. Cianflocco
Jozeff Gebolys
Gordon Gibb
Teresan Gilbert
Terry Gilbert
Barbara Ginn
Roger Gold and Deborah Rukin Gold
Joyce Goldstein
Julia Gordon
Angela Gott
Daniel and Sarah Gourash
Leslie Greenhalgh and Kurt Miller
Marc and Nadia Groedel
Sister Joanne Gross
Michael and Gloria Gruhin
Julie and Todd Gurney
Brian and Lindsay Guscott
David Haba
Arthur Hall III
Thomas Hamilton
Patricia and William Hanavan
Suzanne Hanselman
Roberta and Jon Hardacre
Peter and Carolyn Hardin-Levine
Ruth Hartman and Joshua Davis
Gregory Harvey
Susan and Jeffery Hastings
William Hayden
R. Scott Heasley
Jessica Hendricks
M. Kristi Henzel, MD, PhD
Gwen Herman
Franklin Hickman
Andrew and Debra Hoffmann
Scott and Sharon Holbrook
Katherine and Adam Hollingsworth
Bruce and Beth Hutton
Stephanie and Dennis Jackson
Christopher Jacobs and Carolyn Broering-Jacobs
Bryan Jaketic
Vanetta Jamison
Susan and Stanley Jaros
Gerald Jarzabek
Christopher Johnson
Frances Johnson
Allen Kacenjar, Jr.
Stephen Kadish
Ronald and Susan Kahn
Sheila Kale
Bernard Karr
Kendall Kash
Tara Kastelic
Lynn Kelley
Lisa Khoury-Leszynski
Alexis Kim
Patrick Knoth
Eileen Kollins
Gary Kornblith and Carol Lasser
Ursula Korneitchouk
Kathiann Kowalski
Jessica Kress
Michael and Christina Krnac
Monica Lacks
James Lang
Lynn Larsen
John and Janet Larson
Timothy and Patricia Laskey
Sandra Laurenson
Kathy Lazar
John and Bonnie Lazzaretti
Lynn Lazzaro
Earl and Ellen Leiken
Jonathan and Erika Leiken
Melissa Lewis and Brian Widowski
Pingshan Li
Bonita and Lawrence Lindberg
Luke and Rachel Lindberg
David Lindner
Charles Lissauer
Joanna Lopez Inman and Ramsey Inman
Mary and Carl LoPresti
Sandra Lucas
Alan and Lisa Lufkin
Kurt Lunsford
Josiah Madar
Edward Mamone and Lisa Roberts-Mamone
E. Daniel and Kim Mamrack
Dr. Mary Beth Manning and Cormac Somerville
Lindsay Maxwell Venizelos and James Venizelos
Mark McDougall
Sean McGrane
John McGuire
Patrick McIntyre
Daniel McMullen
Molly McNally
Jean McQuillan
Michael and Ellen Meehan
Erik Meinhardt and Andre Ross
Joseph Meissner
Matthew Mendoza
Thomas and Anne Merriman
Michael Meuti
David and Lisa Michel
Deborah Michelson
Jean and Howard Miller
Robert and Lynn Miller
Richard and Lisa Millisor
Sean Moorhead
John Moran
Hugh Morgan
Amy and Marc Morgenstern
Patti and Hadley Morgenstern-Clarren
Adam Munson
Brian and Heidi Murray
Peter Nagusky
Robert Needlman and Carol Farver
Charlotte and Jack Newman
Allison Smith Newsome
Bernard Niehaus
Kathleen and Donald Nitschke
Gregory and Vicki Nolfi
Michael Nowak
Maureen O’Connor
F. Ronald O’Keefe
Philip Oliss and Rachel McQuade Oliss
Judge Solomon Oliver and Louisa Oliver
Susan Organiscak
Susan Pardee
James and Stacey Patrick
Robert Pecchio
Judge Ralph J. Perk
Thomas Piraino and Barbara McWilliams
Elinor Polster
Lester and Esther Potash
Geralyn Presti and John Sedor
Amy Price
Michael Quigley
Betsy Rader and David Watson
M. Neal and Madeleine Rains
Deborah and John Read
Catherine Redhead
Gladys Reed
Kevin Riddles
Brian and Cheryl Roof
Enid and David Rosenberg
John Rowland
Eugene Roytberg
Michael Russo, Ph.D.
Robert and Sloan Sable
Michael Salkind
Eric Salzberg
Michael Sambrook
Harlan and Lynn Sands
Teresa Santin
Jonnalagadda Sarojini
Joy Savren
Alan and Deborah Scheufler
Angela Schmitt and Jeff Sugalski
Beverly J. Schneider
Stephen and Nadia Schroth
Kathryn Schuessler
Jill Schumacher and Gordon Friedman
Frank Schuschu
Matthew Seeley
Charles Seitz
Michael and Andrea Sharb
Chelsea Shenton
Patricia Shlonsky and Steven Hinkle
Adam Slepecky
Bernard and Mary Smith
Maria A. Smith and Rev. Charlie Hurst
Jeffrey Sobieski
Emily Spivack
Joan Spoerl
Kristofer Spreen
R. Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton
Natalia Steele
Carolyn Steiner
Adrienne Stemen
David Sternberg
Judge Terri Stupica and Donald Bear
Christopher Tazzi
Jennifer Tharp
Dynda and David Thomas
Jerry Thomas, Jr.
Margaret Toohey
Mary Jo and Mohamed Toumert
Suzannah Valdivia
Deitri Villarreal
Elizabeth Vitale
Gregory and Denise Viviani
Peggy Gries Wager and Michael Wager
Thomas C. Wagner
James and Christine Wamsley
Bruce Waterhouse and Sandra Lusher-Waterhouse
David Watson
Kyle Weigand
Larry Weiser
Karey Werner
Cornelius Whitford
Amy Willey
Jonathan Witmer-Rich
Georgia and Jason Yanchar
Gregory York and Kelly McMann
Dan and Ellen Zelman
William Zigli
Jill Miller Zimon and Jeffrey Zimon

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