Legal Opinion
Cummings v. Kilroy
District Court, S.D. Ohio
Decided December 18, 1995No. C-2-93-940Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
KINNEARY, District Judge.
From May 1984 until October 1991, Cynthia Cummings, a black woman, served as the Chief Legal Counsel for the Ohio Department of Health (“ODH”). She was appointed at the beginning of the first term of Governor Richard Celeste, a Democrat, and she was terminated approximately eleven months following the election of Governor George Voinovich, a Republican.
Cummings brought this action against three people: 1) George Voinovich, Governor of the state of Ohio; 2) Dr. Edward G. Kilroy, the director of the ODH from January 1991 through July 1992; and 3) Dr.…
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