DeWine appoints Butler County judge to new court

Since 1999, Lyons has been judge of the Butler County Area I Court in Oxford. DeWine will need to appoint a replacement for that judgeship as well.

Lyons has ben a private practicing attorney since 1980 after earning a law degree from Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where he is an adjunct professor. He also is the president of the Butler County Association of Municipal & County Court Judges, has twice served as chairman of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Traffic Law Committee and is a member of various judicial and law-related associations, according to the release.