Tough, Principled Prosecutor and Constitutional Conservative
Willa Concannon is Chief of the Appellate Division for the Butler County Prosecutor's Office, where she handles high-stakes appeals on behalf of the State of Ohio in the Supreme Court of Ohio and the 12th District Court of Appeals. She has successfully prosecuted more than 120 civil and criminal cases before those courts. She has served as a prosecutor for 15 years.
Willa's career
She began as a trial and appellate prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, then practiced commercial litigation at a top D.C. corporate law firm. In Butler County she leads the Appellate Division, arguing death penalty and complex constitutional cases before the 12th District Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Breadth and depth as both an appellate and trial prosecutor, and in commercial litigation at a top corporate law firm.
She served as Parliamentarian and a member of the Butler County Republican Central Committee, resigning that position to run for this seat. She has been married for twenty years to a former federal prosecutor who is now president of a Hamilton-based family manufacturing firm and supplier to the U.S. Navy, and a volunteer firefighter and EMT. They are raising two teenage sons, who attended Talawanda schools.