Melissa Peper A. Firestone

Candidate Details

• Residence
  Napoleon
• Email
  mpeperfirestone@henrycountyfamilycourt.com
• Social Media
  
• Age
  64
• Occupation
  Magistrate, Henry County Common Pleas Domestic Relations Court
• Education
  

  1981 undergraduate degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

  1991 juris doctorate from University of Toledo

• Work Experience
  

  Began my career as a journalist/reporter  for the Lima News and editor of the Swanton Enterprise. Then became assistant director of public relations at Bowling Green State University. After law school, I taught college level classes at Xi'an Foreign Languages University in Xi'an, China. 
  Upon returning to the US, I began private practice in Napoleon, Ohio at Peper Law Firm in domestic relations law, probate and real estate law.

  I became an assistant prosecutor first doing the civil area and then moving to juvenile, abuse, neglect and dependency and family intervention court. 
  In 2020 I became the magistrate in the Domestic Relations Court.

• Family
  Married to Dan Firestone, two sons: Carson and Wyeth
• Affiliations
  

  I am a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Waterville, Ohio, where I have served on council and many committees

  Past board member and Vice President of Northwest Ohio Synod Council. Past board member and chair of Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Bexley, Ohio

  Board member of Henry County Hospital, Foundation Board

  Board member of Symphony of Trees, Napoleon, chair and member of affliated committees

  Member of Association Family and Conciliation Courts; also member and past board member of its Ohio division

  Member of Henry County Bar Association

  Member of Ohio State Bar Association