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GREATER CLEVELAND BENCH-BAR MEMORIAL PROGRAM

2026 Greater Cleveland Bench-Bar Memorial Program

The Annual Greater Cleveland Bench-Bar Memorial Program honors the lives and accomplishments of members of the legal profession who have passed away. The service is presided over by a member of the judiciary and includes remarks from Bar leadership and the administrative and presiding judges of our local courts. Leaders from various bar associations also take part by reading the names of those being remembered.

Each year, the Bar Association hosts this program, which is open and free to colleagues, friends, and family of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County attorneys and judges who passed away in the previous year. Following the program, guests are invited to an afternoon reception with light refreshments.

Registration

Event

Thu, March 19, 2026
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET

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Kevin Grissinger Please contact Kevin Grissinger with questions: kgrissinger@clemetrobar.org Scroll below and enter your name and email to RSVP for the event.

Honorees

Helen S. Carroll
Jane C. Ockuly
Jerome “Jerry” Edward Nairne
Stephan C. Kremer
Dr. Jeffrey G. Harris
Kent M. Graham
Nicholas T. George
Fred K. Lacher
Philip S. Kaufmann
Merle E. Pheasant
Peter P. Lorenz
William T. Whitaker
Sergio A. Carano
George E. Bandy
Harland B. Horton
Edward E. Brogan
John D. Frisby
Harold F. “Hal” Bowers Jr.
Sandra Roebuck
Bruce G. “Quack,” Bernel 
Jerome C. Finefrock
Bruce W. Digby
Joseph “Joe” Vincent Hartlaub
Warren Bo Pritchard
Lawrence M. Bell
J. Douglas Butler
Mary T. Cushing
Norman S. Dellner
Stephen Fredercik Dobscha
Sheldon M. Eisner

Mary Ann Emery
David C. George
Joseph Kalk
David Kolick
John O. Martin
Lee W. McClelland
Louise McKinney
Osborne Mills
John Garver Morrisson
Constance Anne Nearhood
Maurice P. Neiman
Marc S. Nudelman
Ronald Olbrysh
John Boyd Pisaris
Verlinda Lee Powell
Melvyn E. Resnick
David L. Rosenzweig
Robert Davis “Bob” Storey
James F. Sweeney
Stephen Good Thomas
Honorable Mary Jane Trapp
R. Byron Wallace
Marcie Waller Terman
David R. Williams
Honorable Lesley Wells
Richard T. Reminger Sr.
Michael L. Climaco
Michael E. Gibbons
Albi Cela
Brian F. Toohey

Albert Joseph Morhard
S Lee Kohrman
Oliver “Pudge” Carl Henkel
Thomas M. Seger
David A. Beal
Michael Edmund Stinn
John August Huettner
Hermine Greene Eisen
Patrick J. Dugan
Alfred Raymond Mays
Sara Juanita Harper
Jillian Spence Davis
Ronald Lee Rosenfield
Lisa Marie Ruda
Jerry Alan Petersen
Robert Sanford Turoff
John Patrick Coyne
Clarence H. Holmes
Gregory Blackwell Taylor
Stanley Lewis Josselson
Paul Adelbert Studly
Robert Joseph Gregor
Tina Marie Scibona
Thomas Vincent Chema
Kevin Hain Cronin
Betty Cordelia Farley
James Potter Koerner
Michael Henry Peterson
Bennie Eugene Espy
Honorable James Joseph Sweeney

Best Event Parking

The One Cleveland Garage is attached to the One Cleveland Center office building and has 2 entrances/exits, one on St. Clair Avenue and one on Rockwell Avenue. All levels of the facility are covered offering parking for office building tenents & surrounding venues.

The garage has an entrance right off East 9th and St. Clair, across the street from the YMCA. Please drive up the ramp, pull a ticket and proceed up to level 3 and above. There is also an entrance off of East 9th and Rockwell. Again, please stop and get a ticket and proceed to level 3 or above.

Location

Cleveland Metropolitan Conference Center

1375 E. 9th Street, Floor 2, Auditorium

Cleveland, Ohio 44114