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David E. Freel has been the Executive Director of the Ohio Ethics Commission since 1994. As Executive Director, Mr. Freel supervises a staff of twenty-one and oversees the state-wide responsibilities of the Commission to provide advice, education, financial disclosure, and investigative services. Mr. Freel also represents the Commission before the General Assembly and other governmental bodies and has served as a special assistant prosecutor in ethics-related prosecutions. Mr. Freel has written articles on Ohio’s Ethics Law and given ethics presentations at seminars and conferences in the United States and Canada. He is a past President of the Council of Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL), an international organization composed of federal, state, local, and provincial agencies, and individuals, responsible for the administration and implementation of ethics, financial disclosure, elections, campaign finance, and freedom of information laws and provisions. Mr. Freel was the recipient of the 2007 COGEL Award, its highest honor, and had previously received its 2002 COGEL Service Award. Mr. Freel also serves on the Executive Committee of the Council for Ethical Leadership at the Capital University School of Management. Mr. Freel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science from The Ohio State University in 1974, and his Juris Doctor degree from Capital University School of Law in 1977. |
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