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2013 Winner - Rick Ketcham, Esq.
Rick Ketcham stood out because he is the gentleman who has taught all of us how to practice law. He is the guy we should all try to be like. He is a founding member of this association. He has taught us, in recent months, how to practice life. Unfortunately, he has come down with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, within the last six (6) months. he could have simply said "That's it." But he kept on practicing law. He successfully represented someone in a drug case. He successfully represented someone in a murder case. He still kept on living up to the highest ideals of our profession -- continuing to be what all of us should be -- a criminal law advocate. He has been involved with Meals on Wheels, and he was recently engaged to a really wonderful person, Rebecca.
Rick is a second-generation attorney with more than forty (40) years of practice and more than forty (40) death penalty cases under his belt. Rick graduated from Capital University School of Law and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1974 after earning his Bachelor of Science from Bowling Green State University.
