Mr. Resnick was appointed as the Chief Civil Magistrate of the Lyndhurst Municipal Court by the Honorable Judge Mary Kaye Bozza in January, 2000.  In that capacity, Mr. Resnick presides on all civil Matters before the Court including monetary disputes not exceeding Fifteen Thousand Dollars, Evictions, the Small Claims Docket and other matters provided by law.  Mr. Resnick presides over civil trials.  He works diligently with litigants to achieve fair and meaningful resolutions through mediation.

 

Mr. Resnick obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree at The Ohio State University, and earned his Juris Doctorate at the John Marshall School of Law at The Cleveland State University.  In addition to his Magistrate duties at The Lyndhurst Municipal Court, Mr. Resnick also serves as a Magistrate at the Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a position he has held since 1980.  Mr. Resnick is a frequent lecturer at such institutions as The Cleveland Clinic and The Ohio Hospital Association.  Mr. Resnick is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and has been a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Cuyahoga County Criminal Lawyers Association.  Mr. Resnick previously served as an Ohio Assistant General in the Criminal Activities Division, and was appointed Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General (1980-90).

 

In addition to his public service, Mr. Resnick is in private practice as the principal of Elliott I. Resnick & Co., L.P.A. with an office in Beachwood, Ohio.  Mr. Resnick is a proud resident of Lyndhurst, Ohio for more than twenty years, where his two children graduated from Charles F. Brush High School.