Posted by Rick Taylor
 
 
Judge Frank Forchione is currently one of five Stark County Common Pleas Judges.  These Judges handle the most severe criminal cases in our community.  Judge Forchione graduated from Kent State University with a degree in Economics.  He immediately began law school at The University of Akron and was a finalist for the Bracton Inn Outstanding Student.
 
Judge Forchione began working as an assistant City Prosecutor for the City of Canton.  In 1994 Judge Forchione was named the Canton City Prosecutor and served that office for 15 years.  Judge Forchione was selected as a special prosecutor for over nine different cities or counties for high profile criminal cases.  In 2009 his work as a special prosecutor in Wayne County was the focus of the HBO Documentary, "Death on a Factory Farm".

In 2009 Judge Forchione was elected to the Stark County Bench and was re-elected in 2014, unopposed.

During his judgeship, Judge Forchione has sat on the historic case of Mercy vs. Aultman Hospital, which lasted nine weeks.  It is also the longest trial in Stark County history.

He is the founder and Chairman of the “Stop Heroin from Killing Committee”, which has targeted the heroin epidemic that is engulfing Ohio.  They have established a public awareness program through billboards and radio, as well as public symposiums, all combatting the heroin epidemic.

His most important accomplishment was growing up with five sisters, with only one telephone and one bathroom.