Timothy Black

Timothy Seymour Black (born August 30, 1953) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Education

Black earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1975 and then earned a Juris Doctor in 1983 from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law of Northern Kentucky University.

Career

Black practiced law as a civil litigator for the Cincinnati law firm of Graydon Head & Ritchey from 1983 until 1993. In 1993, he ran as a Democrat and defeated sitting judge David Albanese. of Lou Gehrig's disease, and Obergefell were married in Maryland, where same-sex marriage is recognized, in a ceremony on an airplane on the airport tarmac. The ruling meant the pair can be buried next to each other in Arthur's family plot, located at a cemetery that only allows descendants and spouses. Black reasoned that because Ohio recognizes out-of-state heterosexual marriages that would be prohibited in Ohio, such as marriages between first cousins or minors – including those who married outside Ohio for the sole purpose of evading its marriage laws – the state cannot single out homosexual marriages as the sole category of out-of-state marriages to which it will not grant recognition.

In September 2013, Ohio State Representative John Becker sent a letter to a member of the Ohio Congressional delegation asking him to initiate impeachment proceedings against Black. On December 23, 2013, Black ordered Ohio to recognize same-sex marriages from other states on death certificates, deeming Ohio's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

Personal life On June 17, 2017, Black's daughter, Emily, married Jon Favreau, a political podcaster and former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, at the Black family's vacation home in Biddeford Pool, Maine.