Nadel gets top judge job

Kimball Perry reports:

Hamilton County's most senior Common Pleas Court will also be that court's presiding judge in 2008.

Norbert Nadel, who turns 69 on Jan. 3, is a Clifton Republican who has been on the Common Pleas Court bench -- hearing felony charges -- since December 1982.

Most of the presiding judge's responsibilities are ceremonial but internal disputes and other issues can come before the presiding judge for a determination.

Nadel became a federal prosecutor after attending the University of Cincinnati and then the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at night while supporting his family by operating his father's retail store while his father was sick with an illness that subsequently caused his death.

Nadel was the 2004 Hamilton County Trial Lawyers Association Trial Judge of the Year, has received the local Mothers Against Drunk Drivers Award of Judicial Excellence, is a member of the Advisory Board of the Ronald McDonald House of Greater Cincinnati and was twice past president of the Chase College of Law Alumni Association.