Honorable Diane M. Palos, Administrative Judge

Judge Diane M. Palos serves on the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations. She previously served as a Magistrate and Referee in that court. She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for Children and Families, which she previously served on from 2002 to 2008. She was the 2016-17 President of the Ohio Association of Domestic Relations Judges (OADRJ) and served from 2016 to 2017 as the Chair of the Ohio Judicial College Board of Trustees. She previously served as a Chair of the SCO Commission on the Rules of Superintendence.

Judge Palos chaired the planning committee for the Ohio Domestic Relations Summit in 2014. She was appointed by the Chief Justice to the Task Force on Access to Justice in 2014. She served on the SCO Committee on Case Management. She is the co-chair of the Ohio Judicial Conference Law & Procedure Committee for Domestic Relations. Previously, she served on the Ohio Judicial College Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2018. Judge Palos has been a faculty planner for continuing legal education for judges and magistrates in Ohio since 1987. She served by appointment on the Ohio Child Support Guidelines Council, from 1999 to 2001 and as a proxy to Ohio Child Support Guidelines Council from 1995 to 1997.

For several years, Judge Palos served on the Planning Committee for the Cleveland Child Advocacy Center, now called Canopy Child Advocacy Center. She worked with the Journey Center for Safety and Healing on the grant to establish the Safe and Sound Visitation Center. She has been an executive officer and member of the Board of Trustees for The Center for Principled Family Advocacy since 2000. She was a founding member of the Center and has planned and facilitated many of the CLE presentations since its establishment.

Judge Palos worked as an adjunct professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law for 21 years. She taught various courses including Advanced Legal Writing with a Family Law focus, Legal Writing, Family Law, and Bar Strategies and Tactics from 1989 to 2009. Judge Palos is the author of Chapter 19, Child Support, Sowald Morganstern Domestic Relations Law and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio.