R. BRENT MINNEY, ESQ.

Mr. R. Brent Minney was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, but his family moved to eastern Ohio when he was fifteen. He graduated from Cadiz High School in 1971, and received a Bachelor of Arts of Degree with high distinction in Political Science from Ohio Northern University in 1975. He earned a Juris Doctor degree cum laude from the University of Dayton School of Law in 1978. Mr. Minney is licensed to practice law in Ohio and has represented clients in the United States District Court of Ohio (Northern and Southern Districts), the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and various courts in Ohio, including the Ohio Supreme Court. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys from 1991 to 2004 and served as its Chairperson in 1997. He also served as Chairman of the Attorneys' Workshop at the Capital Conference in 1992, 1995, and 2001, is a member of the American, Ohio, and Akron Bar Associations, and has been the Legal Services Director of OME-RESA since 1979.

Mr. Minney began his legal career as an Assistant Prosecutor for Muskingum County, Ohio. During that time, he represented county officeholders, townships, local school districts, and the joint vocational and county school districts in Muskingum County. Since 1981, his law practice has been limited exclusively to the representation and counseling of public school districts and boards of education.

Mr. Minney negotiates for boards of education, but his major emphasis is in the areas of special education law, litigation, grievance arbitration, and general counseling of boards of education, as well as providing written legal opinions and writing policy books for client school districts. He has presented numerous speeches at national disability law seminars and to various groups of educators and school law attorneys and authored articles on education law topics. Mr. Minney is the co-author of the Ohio Sports Law Handbook published by the Ohio School Boards Association in 2004, and the Complete Guide to Employing, Training & Supervising Paraprofessionals published by Brownstone Publishers, Inc. in 2005. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the IDEA Compliance Insider.

Email: bminney@pepple-waggoner.com