Leah Dinkelacker
OH · Judge, Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, General Division
Hamilton County Common Pleas judge appointed in March 2025. She was an assistant Hamilton County prosecutor for almost 13 years.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 6 records
Judge Leah Dinkelacker sentenced Patrick Lyons to three years in prison after he pleaded to resisting arrest and inducing panic, citing the safety of the community.
June 11, 2026
Source: aol.com
Judge Leah M. Dinkelacker began a three-year term on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism.
January 1, 2026
Source: supremecourt.ohio.gov
Judge Leah Dinkelacker gave preliminary approval to a proposed $750,000 class settlement over Rumpke’s 2024 employee-data breach.
November 19, 2025
Source: classaction.org
Judge Leah Dinkelacker entered an agreed final order requiring Hebrew Union College to inventory its Klau Library rare books, honor donor restrictions, and give Ohio’s attorney general 45 days’ notice of a planned removal or sale.
October 3, 2025
Source: ohioattorneygeneral.gov
Judge Leah Dinkelacker accepted Desean Brown’s guilty pleas to two aggravated murders and imposed two life sentences without parole, adopting the prosecution’s agreed recommendation.
September 10, 2025
Source: wcpo.com
As a Hamilton County juvenile prosecutor, Leah Dinkelacker asked for detention in a Wyoming High School hazing and assault case after a teen pleaded guilty. The magistrate imposed probation instead.
April 24, 2024
Source: wcpo.com
Past race Leah Dinkelacker ran in:
- Judge, Court of Common Pleas, General Division - Unexpired Term Ending 01/14/2029 · November 3, 2026 · Hamilton County, Ohio · incumbent