Adam VanHo

Adam VanHo is an Assistant Ohio Attorney General and candidate for Judge of the Stow Municipal Court.
VanHo was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated Euclid High School in Euclid, Ohio and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
He attended the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University, where he was an articles editor on the Cleveland State Law Review and member of the Student Bar Association. During law school, VanHo worked in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, the United States Attorney's Office in Cleveland, and on the third trial of Dr. Sam Shappard.
After law school, VanHo worked in the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office, and then in the Summit County Prosecutor's Office. As a prosecutor in Summit County, VanHo worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the successful 2004 conviction of Denny Ross for the rape, kidnapping, and attempted murder of an Akron woman ; the 2005 conviction of three defendants for the Christmas 2005 attack in Akron's Vietnamese community ; and the 2005 conviction of Rebecca Searcy for a series of burglaries and thefts in Hudson, Ohio.
He joined the Ohio Attorney General's Office in 2007, where he was a member of the Child and Elder Protection Unit and Special Prosecutions Section. He is currently a member of the Capital Crimes Unit, where he handles death penalty cases on behalf of the state of Ohio. He is also on the Auxilary Faculty at the University of Akron.
In May 2009, he filed to run for judge of the Stow Municipal Court, which covers sixteen communities in northern Summit County, Ohio.
VanHo lives in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

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