CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Judge Timothy Flanagan will retire from the divorce-and-child-custody bench at year’s end, ending a 26-year tenure as administrative judge, he confirmed Monday.
Flanagan will leave a court that had been among the state’s most beleaguered until it adopted broad reforms demanded by the Ohio Supreme Court earlier this year.
“Right now, as we stand, I thought it was a good time to leave and enjoy retirement,” said Flanagan, who has five years remaining on his six-year term.
Gov. Ted Strickland will choose a replacement for his fellow Democrat.
Flanagan, 63, has served the court since 1982, and has been administrative judge since the year after that. Through most of his tenure, he drew praise and little public criticism. He ran unopposed in 1996, 2002 and last year.
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