Magistrate Wendy J. Smither began serving as a Magistrate in the Lake County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, on March 23, 2003. She was named the Director of Mediation on April 1, 2021.
Before serving as a Magistrate, Magistrate Smither worked as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Lake County from 1995 to 2003, and a Staff Attorney for the Honorable Martin O. Parks from 1991 to 1995. She has also been an Adjunct Professor in the Paralegal Program at Lakeland Community College since 1992.
Magistrate Smither earned her Law Degree from Cleveland – Marshall College of Law in 1990.