Mary DeGenaro is the Chief Legal Counsel for Auditor of State Keith Faber, the third branch of
government in which she has served Ohio. For 18 years she served in the judiciary as the 159th justice
of the Ohio Supreme Court and as a judge on the Seventh District Court of Appeals, comprised of
Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning, Monroe and Noble Counties. Prior to that
she was a member of Poland Village Council.

Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1986, Mary is also admitted to practice in the federal courts, including the
U.S. Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in
1983 from Youngstown State University and her law degree in 1986 from the Cleveland-Marshall College
of Law at Cleveland State University, where she interned with U.S. District Judge George White.

Mary’s extensive community and professional service includes Immediate Past President of the Ohio
Women’s Bar Association and founding member of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice
Specialty Certification Board, which administers the specialty bar examination and certification.

Past service includes: Adjunct faculty member for the political science department at Youngstown State
University; Member of the statewide Voter Education & Public Funding Working Group to further
judicial impartiality, a court-policy initiative of former Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, which addressed
issues involving judicial races and preserving the integrity of Ohio’s judiciary; Member of the external
advisory committees for the Ohio Center for the Advancement of Women in Public Service at Cleveland
State University and Youngstown State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; the Ohio
Judicial Conference as a member of the Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Judicial Ethics and
Professionalism Committee.