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# Laurel Beatty Blunt

Tenth District Court of Appeals · Court of Appeals Judge

## Profile

- Court: Tenth District Court of Appeals
- State: Ohio
- Role: Court of Appeals Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Laurel Beatty Blunt is a Democratic Party judge of the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals, serving since 2019 and re‐elected in 2024, with a career spanning trial law, legislative affairs, and appellate judicial service
- 2018–present: Judge, Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals, hearing appeals from the Franklin County Common Pleas (General, Probate, Domestic Relations, Juvenile), Franklin County Municipal Court, Ohio Court of Claims, and various state agencies
- From 2004 to 2007, she was Director of Legislative Affairs and Counsel to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Voting Rights Institute, liaising with the Ohio General Assembly, 88 county boards of elections, and drafting and sponsoring legislation

### Education

- Beatty Blunt obtained a B.S. in Psychology magna cum laude from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, followed by a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1999.

### Additional information

- 2009–2018: Judge, Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, with jurisdiction over felony criminal cases, administrative appeals, and civil matters over $15,000
- handling litigation, creditor’s rights, bankruptcy, and government affairs matters.
- focusing on commercial and diet drug defense litigation.
- She later joined Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter in Columbus
- Her legal career began at Frost Brown Todd (previously Frost & Jacobs) in Cincinnati
- She then worked in small business, probate, and personal injury law at Otto Beatty, Jr. & Associates, serving as first and second chair in trials
- She is also a member of the Ohio Supreme Court Board on Continuing Legal Education and active in bar associations including the Ohio Women’s Bar Association and Ohio State Bar Association

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### remote hearing exhibits

Scope: statewide

Ohio's statewide virtual-court guidance tells courts to include instructions for submitting exhibits or notifying the court of witnesses when remote-hearing information is sent to participants.

Evidence excerpt: Instructions for submitting exhibits or notifying the court of witnesses.

[Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)
Source checked: 2026-07-26

### remote hearing ground rules

Scope: statewide

Ohio's statewide virtual-court guidance recommends advance ground rules for documents, exhibits, screen sharing, and pre-marking exhibits for remote hearings.

Evidence excerpt: Documents: Share any documents/exhibits that will be reviewed in advance. Use the share screen function while documents are being discussed during the hearing. Request that the documents are pre-marked for exhibit purposes.

[Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)
Source checked: 2026-07-26

### remote recording

Scope: statewide

Ohio's statewide virtual-court guidance states that litigants, attorneys, and the public should be instructed not to record the hearing.

Evidence excerpt: The court should instruct the litigants, attorneys, and the public to not record the hearing.

[Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://www.ohiojudges.org/directory/ojc-directory/)
- [Official roster](https://www.ohiojudges.org/directory/ojc-directory/)
- [Ohio Judicial Conference Directory official judicial roster](https://www.ohiojudges.org/directory/ojc-directory/)
- [Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)
- [Wikidata: Laurel Beatty Blunt](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139119309)

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