About

Patrick Carroll served as Judge of the Lakewood Municipal Court for almost 32 years and is currently serving as a judge by assignment of the Ohio Supreme Court and as the ABA Judicial Outreach Liaison for the State of Ohio.

Prior to taking the bench, Judge Carroll served as an assistant prosecuting attorney for Cuyahoga County, Civil Division, from 1979 to 1984, and in private practice until 1990. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable John V. Corrigan at the 8th District Court of Appeals.

From 1981 to 1990, Judge Carroll was an adjunct faculty member for the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University. He received his J.D. from Cleveland State College of Law, where he served as the Research Editor for the law review.

Judge Carroll has written several reported decisions and legal articles, most recently The Inequity of Third Party Bail Practices, 53 Loyola Univ. Chicago Law Journal 153 (2022).

Judge Carroll is co-chair of the Editorial Board of the Ohio Jury Instructions Committee for the Ohio Judicial Conference, education chair for the Association of Municipal/County Court Judges of Ohio, a past member of the Supreme Court of Ohio Continuing Legal Education Commission and Judicial College Board of Trustees, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.

He is a life member of the Eighth District Judicial Conference, a two-time recipient of the President's Award from the Association of Municipal/County Judges of Ohio, and a frequent faculty member for the Judicial College.

Judge Carroll was inducted into the Cleveland State University Law School Hall of Fame in 2023 and is the 2024 recipient of the Thomas J. Moyer Judicial Excellence Award from the Ohio State Bar Association.