Carmen V. Roberto OSBA President July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011 Bernlohr, Niekamp and Weisensell Akron, Ohio

OSBA President Carmen V. Roberto practices with the Akron firm of Bernlohr, Niekamp and Weisensell in the areas of criminal defense and civil litigation. He has represented OSBA District 11 on the Board of Governors, chaired the OSBA Ohio Lawyer Board of Editors and has chaired the OSBA Membership, Public and Media Relations and Publications Committee. He also has served on the OSBA Task Force on Gender Fairness and is a member of the Negligence Law and Traffic Law Committees. He was also a member of the Ohio State Bar Foundation Fellows Class of 2006.

Active in his local community’s bar activities, Roberto has served as president of the Akron Bar Association and the Ohio Metropolitan Bar Association Consortium and has served on the boards of the Akron Bar Association and the Akron Bar Foundation.

In the community, Roberto has served on the Green Planning Commission and the Lake Township Zoning Board. He was also the attorney’s chair for the United Way. A former prosecutor and law director for the city of Cuyahoga Falls, he has served as a special prosecutor for cases in Youngstown and Cuyahoga Falls. He has also written A Trial Handbook for Municipal Prosecutors as well as a chapter of the book, Trial Briefs.

Roberto graduated from the University of Connecticut and the University of Akron School of Law. He and his family live in Green.