Cincinnati.com reports:

Josh Berkowitz, an assistant Hamilton County prosecutor, was named Friday as the county's newest Municipal Court judge.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich made the appointment. Berkowitz takes a seat, that presides over misdemeanor criminal and smaller civil cases, vacated when Judge Megan Shanahan was promoted last month to a Common Pleas judgeship that hear felony criminal and larger civil cases.

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