Butler County Common Pleas judge to retire: Large crowd says goodbye

It was standing room only Monday at a Hamilton reception to say goodbye to retiring Butler County Common Pleas Judge Noah Powers II.

A Middletown native, former mayor and longtime attorney, Powers was elected to the county common pleas bench in 2006. At 71, Powers will leave office Jan. 2 because he cannot run again due to age limits.

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Powers is a graduate of Middletown schools and Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., Powers received a law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University in Cleveland. He spent years in private practice in Middletown as managing partner at Repper, Powers & Pagan, LTD and also prosecuted cases as an assistant county prosecutor for 10 years.

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Lauren Pack

Lauren Pack, a native of the Miami Valley, has been on staff at the Journal-News since 1994 reporting on courts and crime.