Magistrate Jennifer L. Ater

Jennifer L. Ater has been serving as a Magistrate in the General/Domestic Division and Juvenile/Probate Division of the Ross County Court of Common Pleas since her appointment in October 2023.   She graduated from Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati in 1988, and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Miami University in 1992.  She obtained her Juris Doctorate Degree from Case Western Reserve School of Law in Cleveland in 1995.  Magistrate Ater served as an Assistant Prosecutor with the Ross County Prosecutor’s Office for 17 years, and operated a private law practice for over 25 years encompassing domestic relations, estate planning, property and probate law.  Magistrate Ater is a past Board Member of the Ross County Bar Association, Junior Civic League, Pump House Center for the Arts, and was a Junior Achievement Advisor.  She currently serves on the Board of the Chillicothe Ross Community Foundation and Unioto School Soccer Boosters.  She is a member of the Ross County Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association and Ohio Magistrate’s Association.

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