February 5, 2024 • 13 mins
David Badnell was recently elected in November of 2023, and sworn-in last month in January, as Municipal Court Judge in Mansfield. David's term is for 6 years and he shares all of the duties of a Municipal Court Judge on the podcast. Badnell was born in Columbus, and later moved to Morrow County as a child, before attending Highland High School. David is a graduate of the Ohio State University and is married with two kids. Learn more about him on the podcast.
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(00:00):
The CEO you should know, broughtto you by Roby Foster Miller Eric Insurance.
This week's CEO Mansfield Municipal Court JudgeDavid bad Now, good morning,
good morning erin terrific to see you. Congratulations by the way, thank you
very much. All right, soI want to begin there. Just recently
(00:21):
elected correct absolutely elected in November.Took the bench January twod. I think
I've been there twenty eight twenty ninedays now, all right, Well,
I think it's important because not everyday a do I get to talk to
a judge but be learn about kindof job duties. What I'm sure every
day is different, but there's alot of things that you kind of oversee.
(00:43):
What walk us through the life ofa municipal court judge. Well,
a municipal court judge has jurisdiction overmisdemeanor cases. They have jurisdiction over civil
disputes that are less than fifteen thousanddollars in dispute. And we also serve
as municipal judges as the gateway forfelony cases. So preliminary hearings are conducted
(01:04):
in municipal court and if probable causeis found in the felony, then it's
bound over to the Common Police Court. So it's a wide variety of things
that municipal court handles. Now,in terms of a day to day for
a judge, is there certain daysfor this, certain days for that?
How does it work in terms ofyour schedule. I'm blessed with a very
(01:25):
good assignment commissioner that takes care ofthe schedule, and we do try to
maintain some degree of routine. Soyesterday was Tuesday, so we had bench
trial schedule on Tuesday. Thursdays wehave preliminary hearings scheduled. We have a
jury week once a month where wehave jury trial set for the week,
so there is some routine to it. But in the short time that I've
(01:47):
been there, I've tried to takea customer service oriented approach. So to
give you an example, we hadno weddings scheduled today, but somebody called
this morning, spoke with my administrativeassistant, wanted to know if we could
work in a wedding this afternoon.That's not you know, if you check
the city website, it says they'redone on a particular day. But we
(02:07):
had a free opening this afternoon,so we're going to do a wedding.
So we've tried to instill, inthe short time that I've been there,
a more customer service oriented court sowe can help people get the services they
need in line with their schedule andin line with my schedule. All right,
great to learn this morning about DavidBadnew this week's CEO. You should
(02:30):
know new municipal court judge here inMansfield. Something else people might not know
they think about. You know,hey, somebody's elected. What's the term?
Tell us about that? For youand for a judge at least in
Ohio. I know that judicial termsare all six years in Ohio. Municipal
judges are elected in odd years,so we are not on a presidential cycle.
(02:54):
We're not on a senatorial cycle.It's odd years for municipal judges and
common please court judges are even years, all right. I did not know
that. I don't think a lotof people knew it was six years,
all right. So it's great tolearn the story about you, and we're
going to learn even more. Butbefore we turn the microphones on, you
told me, and I think youought to share with the listeners. Of
course, you've been a municipal courtjudge for roughly close to a month,
(03:16):
and you've just been impressed, rightwith the people and all of that.
Totally impressed, thoroughly impressed with everybodythat's working in the city building. I
felt totally welcomed from day one,and the city maintenance staff asked me what
color I wanted the office painted.They painted the office and the beautiful soothing
green with the nice tan walls onthe other sides, and it just made
(03:39):
it welcoming and felt like home.They helped me with the furniture getting moved
in, They repainted and redid myadministrative assistance area. From top down,
everybody in that building has just beenfantastic to work with. So I'm thoroughly
impressed with a city government from topto bottom. All Right, I'd love
to hear that this morning again.David Badnail is with us now in terms
(04:01):
of you people think judge in acourtroom, but there's an office as well.
That just kind of talk about thata little bit. Well, Yes,
in municipal Court we have three courtrooms. Judge Kimmer has a courtroom,
Magistrate McCallister has a courtroom, andI have a courtroom. Then located behind
those courtrooms. We have two juryrooms along with offices for the assignment commissioner.
(04:24):
Each judge has an office for abailiff, an administrative assistant, and
their own office. So Mattster McCollisteronly has room for an administrative assistant,
but we all have our own officesback there. Attorneys can come back and
conduct business. We can have offthe record discussions in private if necessary.
It's a well thought out, welldesigned courthouse. I'm very impressed. All
(04:46):
right, terrific Again with David Badnailwith us in studio, We're going to
learn more about him. He ismunicipal court judge in Mansfield. But let's
learn a bit more about you.If people don't know, let's step back
to the very beginning and find outwhere was David Badnell born. I was
actually born in Columbus, Ohio.Just before I started kindergarten, we moved
to the middle of Marrow County andI grew up in Marrol County. I
(05:11):
went to Highland High School just downHighland Scott's right, the Highland Fighting Scott's.
Absolutely, we were kind of inthe middle of Mount Vernon, Marion
and Mansfield, so we would cometo Mansfield Kingwood Center, the mall.
I think I told you once beforein another interview that the drive in out
in Ontario, the drive in theaterin Ontario was always a treat because we'd
(05:32):
pop a big old paper grocery sackfull of popcorn in Coca Cola and the
sixteen ounce returnable bottles and come upand watch movies. It was just,
you know, Mansfield was the place, and we went because it was the
big city. So I'm back inthe big city. Did not know you
went to Highland, all right?Next Telespot College. College was the Ohio
(05:55):
State University. Couldn't imagine ever goinganywhere else, so I wanted to go
there since I was a tiny littlechild. So you know, that was
just the thing. I'm from Ohio. You go to the Ohio State University.
Growing up dream of going somewhere,and you made that dream come true.
Awesome, all right, So tellus you go to Ohios day you
graduate. I know there were youknow, other things you've done leading up
(06:15):
to being a judge now, butkind of give us some of the highlights
after college. After college, Itook a road trip to Ada, Ohio
and looked at Ohio Northern University,and I realized that, you know,
Ada's pretty rural, pretty much inthe middle of a cornfield, and I
thought it'd be the perfect place tostudy law. Amazingly enough, they accepted
me, and you'll love this.On the first day that I was there,
(06:41):
I met the lady that became mywife, and it was love at
first sight. I can remember wherewe were in the building in the law
school. I can remember what shewas wearing. And my wife is Judge
Kelly bad Now. And that madethe whole choice of going to Ohio Northern
one hundred percent the right decision.I've been to Ohio Northern for some high
(07:01):
school tournament basketball games. They makepro footballs there right in NATO football.
Ye be made that trip, allright. So growing up, growing up,
and you say you go to lawschool, were there ever dreams to
become a judge? To tell usabout how you got to the decision to
say, Hey, I'm gonna runfor judge. Never in a million years
(07:24):
did I think I was going tobe a judge. I was going to
be a business litigator. That's whatI thought. A finance degree from the
Ohios State University, so of courseI'm gonna be a business litigator. And
I get out of law school andI end up, not by choice,
having I call them people cases.You know, where you're representing people,
either in traffic court, DUI court, family court. I ended up working
(07:49):
in a firm where I was doingthe people type work and I loved the
day to day interaction with regular people, not millionaire businessmen, but just day
to day people. And I lovedit and I felt that I had a
good knack for it, and that'swhat I built my practice on. But
(08:09):
as far as being a judge,never thought in a million years that that
is where what I would do.What urge her to run though, Well,
my wife became probate judge, andI saw the satisfaction she had of
helping people. You know, privatecourt does a lot of adoptions, they
do weddings, they do marriage licenses. So I saw the satisfaction she was
(08:31):
having. I have a friend that'sjudge in Morrow County, Judge Elkin.
I talked to him. He hasa great satisfaction in what he does there
and Judge Larry Heiser and Marion CountyJudge Heiser had a similar kind of career
as I did. You know,working representing people doing you know, normal
everyday people things. And when hebecame judge in Marion County, he told
(08:54):
me about the satisfaction he had ofbeing able to help people and do good
things. So three the people thatI know, that I like and that
I trust all encouraged me to godown that path. And it's only been
a month, but so far,I'm absolutely loving it. All Right,
cool to hear the story of Davidbad Now this morning this week's CEO.
(09:15):
You should know municipal court judge herein Mansfield aren't. While we're on the
topic of you, I heard yousay wife. I know previously you've told
me kids. So if people don'tknow, share a little bit about David
and the family. Well, Ihave a wife, and I have two
beautiful children. I have a sixteenyear old daughter, Natalie. She is
just the most perfect sixteen year oldI've ever seen. And I have a
(09:35):
fourteen year old son, Andrew,and they keep me busy. They're both
very active academically. My daughter playsviola Mansfield Symphony Youth Orchestra. She's in
that. She did mock trial hererecently, so that took a lot of
time. Went and saw her atmock trial. My son Andrew absolutely loves
(09:56):
football. I think you need tolook out. Lexton's got some freshmen and
sophomore kids that are They're big,and they're strong, and they're gonna play
some good football here in the nextfew years. I got a good sophomore
class right now, you've got it. You've got a good freshman class coming
walks out at les absolutely And whenhe's not doing football, he's doing travel
baseball. So pretty much every weekendwe're on the road going somewhere. But
(10:20):
it's truly the greatest joy of mylife is seeing my children have fun,
happy, productive childhood. This isgreat. People can't see it's radio,
but I can see it on yourface how much absolutely love it. All
Right, So if you get anyspare time and judge family, you know
all these events, I'm sure youdon't have a lot. Do you have
any hobbies anything? When it's Davidtime that you like to do? David
(10:43):
time really is spend it with akid's time. That's the single most important
thing in my life is the family, and that will take priority over everything.
Now. I do have a HarleyStreet glide, So when I get
a few free moments. I liketo write on the streetlde and take take
trips around Ohio out toward Worcester andAmish country. It is absolutely beautiful and
(11:05):
when you're on the motorcycle you cansmell the nature and it is just wonderful.
All right, Well again, it'sbeen great to learn about David badnow
municipal court judge here in Mansfield.The last thing I want to throw out
there is if somebody has a questionabout the Municipal Court, I'm sure they
can go to the City of Mansfieldwebsite. You can google it CI dot
Mansfield dot oh dot us and theycan get to the right place, phone
(11:28):
numbers and all that. So thebest place is going to be the city
website. Correct, Absolutely, Yougo to the city website and pick one
of the numbers. You know,make your educated best guess as to who
you need to talk to, andthe film will ring and believe or not
most times actually answered by a livehuman being that actually cares. If not.
(11:48):
We have wonderful technology. The technologyof the city is using is wonderful,
and our voicemail system is wonderful.Your phone call will be returned.
If you've got the wrong department orthe wrong person, We'll find the right
place to put you. We'll fordyour call or whatever you need. So
I think that the court staff thatlargely Mike Kimmer and I inherited, by
(12:09):
and large, they do a greatjob and they really care about the citizens.
They really care about the people comingin front of them. So if
you need something, call, we'llfind the right place to get your call.
Put to all right. City ofMansfield website the best place to go
to get all those important telephone numbersinformation. This week's CEO you Should Know
David Badnell, Municipal Court judge inMansfield. First of all, again,
(12:31):
congratulations, thank you for coming inand we wish you continued success. Thank
you, Aron David Badnell, MansfieldMunicipal Court Judge. The CEO you Should
Know rid a bio, see aphoto and here the extended interview at wman
FM dot com. This is JohnRoby of RFME Insurance. It has said
(12:52):
that a good leader sets the barhigh because he or she wants to reach
goals and make the best of theirteams. We're proud to introduce you to
some of the community's leaders on theCEO series
The CEO you should know, broughtto you by Roby Foster Miller Eric Insurance.
This week's CEO Mansfield Municipal Court JudgeDavid bad Now, good morning,
good morning erin terrific to see you. Congratulations by the way, thank you
very much. All right, soI want to begin there. Just recently
(00:21):
elected correct absolutely elected in November.Took the bench January twod. I think
I've been there twenty eight twenty ninedays now, all right, Well,
I think it's important because not everyday a do I get to talk to
a judge but be learn about kindof job duties. What I'm sure every
day is different, but there's alot of things that you kind of oversee.
(00:43):
What walk us through the life ofa municipal court judge. Well,
a municipal court judge has jurisdiction overmisdemeanor cases. They have jurisdiction over civil
disputes that are less than fifteen thousanddollars in dispute. And we also serve
as municipal judges as the gateway forfelony cases. So preliminary hearings are conducted
(01:04):
in municipal court and if probable causeis found in the felony, then it's
bound over to the Common Police Court. So it's a wide variety of things
that municipal court handles. Now,in terms of a day to day for
a judge, is there certain daysfor this, certain days for that?
How does it work in terms ofyour schedule. I'm blessed with a very
(01:25):
good assignment commissioner that takes care ofthe schedule, and we do try to
maintain some degree of routine. Soyesterday was Tuesday, so we had bench
trial schedule on Tuesday. Thursdays wehave preliminary hearings scheduled. We have a
jury week once a month where wehave jury trial set for the week,
so there is some routine to it. But in the short time that I've
(01:47):
been there, I've tried to takea customer service oriented approach. So to
give you an example, we hadno weddings scheduled today, but somebody called
this morning, spoke with my administrativeassistant, wanted to know if we could
work in a wedding this afternoon.That's not you know, if you check
the city website, it says they'redone on a particular day. But we
(02:07):
had a free opening this afternoon,so we're going to do a wedding.
So we've tried to instill, inthe short time that I've been there,
a more customer service oriented court sowe can help people get the services they
need in line with their schedule andin line with my schedule. All right,
great to learn this morning about DavidBadnew this week's CEO. You should
(02:30):
know new municipal court judge here inMansfield. Something else people might not know
they think about. You know,hey, somebody's elected. What's the term?
Tell us about that? For youand for a judge at least in
Ohio. I know that judicial termsare all six years in Ohio. Municipal
judges are elected in odd years,so we are not on a presidential cycle.
(02:54):
We're not on a senatorial cycle.It's odd years for municipal judges and
common please court judges are even years, all right. I did not know
that. I don't think a lotof people knew it was six years,
all right. So it's great tolearn the story about you, and we're
going to learn even more. Butbefore we turn the microphones on, you
told me, and I think youought to share with the listeners. Of
course, you've been a municipal courtjudge for roughly close to a month,
(03:16):
and you've just been impressed, rightwith the people and all of that.
Totally impressed, thoroughly impressed with everybodythat's working in the city building. I
felt totally welcomed from day one,and the city maintenance staff asked me what
color I wanted the office painted.They painted the office and the beautiful soothing
green with the nice tan walls onthe other sides, and it just made
(03:39):
it welcoming and felt like home.They helped me with the furniture getting moved
in, They repainted and redid myadministrative assistance area. From top down,
everybody in that building has just beenfantastic to work with. So I'm thoroughly
impressed with a city government from topto bottom. All Right, I'd love
to hear that this morning again.David Badnail is with us now in terms
(04:01):
of you people think judge in acourtroom, but there's an office as well.
That just kind of talk about thata little bit. Well, Yes,
in municipal Court we have three courtrooms. Judge Kimmer has a courtroom,
Magistrate McCallister has a courtroom, andI have a courtroom. Then located behind
those courtrooms. We have two juryrooms along with offices for the assignment commissioner.
(04:24):
Each judge has an office for abailiff, an administrative assistant, and
their own office. So Mattster McCollisteronly has room for an administrative assistant,
but we all have our own officesback there. Attorneys can come back and
conduct business. We can have offthe record discussions in private if necessary.
It's a well thought out, welldesigned courthouse. I'm very impressed. All
(04:46):
right, terrific Again with David Badnailwith us in studio, We're going to
learn more about him. He ismunicipal court judge in Mansfield. But let's
learn a bit more about you.If people don't know, let's step back
to the very beginning and find outwhere was David Badnell born. I was
actually born in Columbus, Ohio.Just before I started kindergarten, we moved
to the middle of Marrow County andI grew up in Marrol County. I
(05:11):
went to Highland High School just downHighland Scott's right, the Highland Fighting Scott's.
Absolutely, we were kind of inthe middle of Mount Vernon, Marion
and Mansfield, so we would cometo Mansfield Kingwood Center, the mall.
I think I told you once beforein another interview that the drive in out
in Ontario, the drive in theaterin Ontario was always a treat because we'd
(05:32):
pop a big old paper grocery sackfull of popcorn in Coca Cola and the
sixteen ounce returnable bottles and come upand watch movies. It was just,
you know, Mansfield was the place, and we went because it was the
big city. So I'm back inthe big city. Did not know you
went to Highland, all right?Next Telespot College. College was the Ohio
(05:55):
State University. Couldn't imagine ever goinganywhere else, so I wanted to go
there since I was a tiny littlechild. So you know, that was
just the thing. I'm from Ohio. You go to the Ohio State University.
Growing up dream of going somewhere,and you made that dream come true.
Awesome, all right, So tellus you go to Ohios day you
graduate. I know there were youknow, other things you've done leading up
(06:15):
to being a judge now, butkind of give us some of the highlights
after college. After college, Itook a road trip to Ada, Ohio
and looked at Ohio Northern University,and I realized that, you know,
Ada's pretty rural, pretty much inthe middle of a cornfield, and I
thought it'd be the perfect place tostudy law. Amazingly enough, they accepted
me, and you'll love this.On the first day that I was there,
(06:41):
I met the lady that became mywife, and it was love at
first sight. I can remember wherewe were in the building in the law
school. I can remember what shewas wearing. And my wife is Judge
Kelly bad Now. And that madethe whole choice of going to Ohio Northern
one hundred percent the right decision.I've been to Ohio Northern for some high
(07:01):
school tournament basketball games. They makepro footballs there right in NATO football.
Ye be made that trip, allright. So growing up, growing up,
and you say you go to lawschool, were there ever dreams to
become a judge? To tell usabout how you got to the decision to
say, Hey, I'm gonna runfor judge. Never in a million years
(07:24):
did I think I was going tobe a judge. I was going to
be a business litigator. That's whatI thought. A finance degree from the
Ohios State University, so of courseI'm gonna be a business litigator. And
I get out of law school andI end up, not by choice,
having I call them people cases.You know, where you're representing people,
either in traffic court, DUI court, family court. I ended up working
(07:49):
in a firm where I was doingthe people type work and I loved the
day to day interaction with regular people, not millionaire businessmen, but just day
to day people. And I lovedit and I felt that I had a
good knack for it, and that'swhat I built my practice on. But
(08:09):
as far as being a judge,never thought in a million years that that
is where what I would do.What urge her to run though, Well,
my wife became probate judge, andI saw the satisfaction she had of
helping people. You know, privatecourt does a lot of adoptions, they
do weddings, they do marriage licenses. So I saw the satisfaction she was
(08:31):
having. I have a friend that'sjudge in Morrow County, Judge Elkin.
I talked to him. He hasa great satisfaction in what he does there
and Judge Larry Heiser and Marion CountyJudge Heiser had a similar kind of career
as I did. You know,working representing people doing you know, normal
everyday people things. And when hebecame judge in Marion County, he told
(08:54):
me about the satisfaction he had ofbeing able to help people and do good
things. So three the people thatI know, that I like and that
I trust all encouraged me to godown that path. And it's only been
a month, but so far,I'm absolutely loving it. All Right,
cool to hear the story of Davidbad Now this morning this week's CEO.
(09:15):
You should know municipal court judge herein Mansfield aren't. While we're on the
topic of you, I heard yousay wife. I know previously you've told
me kids. So if people don'tknow, share a little bit about David
and the family. Well, Ihave a wife, and I have two
beautiful children. I have a sixteenyear old daughter, Natalie. She is
just the most perfect sixteen year oldI've ever seen. And I have a
(09:35):
fourteen year old son, Andrew,and they keep me busy. They're both
very active academically. My daughter playsviola Mansfield Symphony Youth Orchestra. She's in
that. She did mock trial hererecently, so that took a lot of
time. Went and saw her atmock trial. My son Andrew absolutely loves
(09:56):
football. I think you need tolook out. Lexton's got some freshmen and
sophomore kids that are They're big,and they're strong, and they're gonna play
some good football here in the nextfew years. I got a good sophomore
class right now, you've got it. You've got a good freshman class coming
walks out at les absolutely And whenhe's not doing football, he's doing travel
baseball. So pretty much every weekendwe're on the road going somewhere. But
(10:20):
it's truly the greatest joy of mylife is seeing my children have fun,
happy, productive childhood. This isgreat. People can't see it's radio,
but I can see it on yourface how much absolutely love it. All
Right, So if you get anyspare time and judge family, you know
all these events, I'm sure youdon't have a lot. Do you have
any hobbies anything? When it's Davidtime that you like to do? David
(10:43):
time really is spend it with akid's time. That's the single most important
thing in my life is the family, and that will take priority over everything.
Now. I do have a HarleyStreet glide, So when I get
a few free moments. I liketo write on the streetlde and take take
trips around Ohio out toward Worcester andAmish country. It is absolutely beautiful and
(11:05):
when you're on the motorcycle you cansmell the nature and it is just wonderful.
All right, Well again, it'sbeen great to learn about David badnow
municipal court judge here in Mansfield.The last thing I want to throw out
there is if somebody has a questionabout the Municipal Court, I'm sure they
can go to the City of Mansfieldwebsite. You can google it CI dot
Mansfield dot oh dot us and theycan get to the right place, phone
(11:28):
numbers and all that. So thebest place is going to be the city
website. Correct, Absolutely, Yougo to the city website and pick one
of the numbers. You know,make your educated best guess as to who
you need to talk to, andthe film will ring and believe or not
most times actually answered by a livehuman being that actually cares. If not.
(11:48):
We have wonderful technology. The technologyof the city is using is wonderful,
and our voicemail system is wonderful.Your phone call will be returned.
If you've got the wrong department orthe wrong person, We'll find the right
place to put you. We'll fordyour call or whatever you need. So
I think that the court staff thatlargely Mike Kimmer and I inherited, by
(12:09):
and large, they do a greatjob and they really care about the citizens.
They really care about the people comingin front of them. So if
you need something, call, we'llfind the right place to get your call.
Put to all right. City ofMansfield website the best place to go
to get all those important telephone numbersinformation. This week's CEO you Should Know
David Badnell, Municipal Court judge inMansfield. First of all, again,
(12:31):
congratulations, thank you for coming inand we wish you continued success. Thank
you, Aron David Badnell, MansfieldMunicipal Court Judge. The CEO you Should
Know rid a bio, see aphoto and here the extended interview at wman
FM dot com. This is JohnRoby of RFME Insurance. It has said
(12:52):
that a good leader sets the barhigh because he or she wants to reach
goals and make the best of theirteams. We're proud to introduce you to
some of the community's leaders on theCEO series
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