Sherrie Mikhail Miday

Sherrie Miday (born 12 October 1976) is a judge for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio.[1]

Sherrie Miday
Cuyahoga County Ohio Courts of Common Pleas
Personal details
Born(1976-10-12)October 12, 1976
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Political partyDemocratic
EducationWestern Reserve University
John Carroll University

Early life

She is the daughter of Coptic priest Michael Edward Mikhail, an American of Egyptian descent. She was born in Cleveland two years after her parents emigrated to the United States. She graduated from John Carroll University in 1998. She received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.

She is the mother of three children.

Career

She worked as a lawyer at the Cleveland office for six years to meet the requirements for running for a judgeship. She worked for three years as a prosecutor and three years as assistant judge.[2][3][4][5][6]

Candidate

She submitted her judgeship application for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. She won the election and was sworn in a few days later. The first was from 1 January 2017. She was the first Egyptian-American to run for judge and the first Egyptian-American elected as a judge in US history.[1][7][8][9]

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