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# Mark W. Fowler

Delaware Municipal Court · Municipal Court Judge

## Profile

- Court: Delaware Municipal Court
- State: Ohio
- Role: Municipal Court Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

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

## 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/)

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## Biography

### Professional career

- Appointed by Governor Mike DeWine to the Delaware Municipal Court in March 2025, succeeding Judge Marianne Hemmeter who moved to the Delaware County Common Pleas Court
- A different Mark Fowler, Mark R. Fowler, serves as a District Court Judge in Iowa’s District 7, appointed to the bench in July 2018 after serving as a district associate judge from 2012.
- In 2011, he became an Assistant Prosecutor at the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office, a role he held until his judicial appointment
- Began his legal career in 2007 with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, serving as legal counsel for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and the Ohio Commission on Minority Health.

### Education

- Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2006
- Bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Akron in 2001
- BA from Augustana College (1990), an MBA from Saint Ambrose University (1997), and a law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law (1999).

### Additional information

- Actively involved in the Delaware community.
- He coaches Special Olympics, serves on the Main Street Delaware Board of Directors, participates in the Knights of Columbus, and volunteers with the Buckeye Valley High School mock trial team and the Common Ground Free Store.
- He is admitted to practice law in Ohio and in the United States Northern and Southern District Courts of Ohio.
- He is a member of the Delaware County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and a fellow of the Ohio State Bar Foundation
- His legal career included private practice at Califf & Harper P.C. in Illinois and the Gomez May law firm in Davenport, Iowa before his judicial appointments.
- He is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association Iowa Judicial Branch
- His community service earned him the Ohio State Bar Foundation’s Community Service Award