Biography
Judge Teresa L.
Liston, ret., served as a judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court, Ohio’s
largest trial court, for three consecutive terms before her retirement. During
her tenure on the court, she was twice elected by that court’s fifteen judges
to serve as its Administrative and Presiding Judge. She currently hears cases
throughout Ohio as a Retired Assigned Judge and does extensive teaching for
legal and judicial programs throughout the United States. Judge Liston is on
the faculty of the National Judicial College and teaches courses for the Ohio
Judicial College, where she previously served as President of its Board of
Trustees for two terms. She is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Capital
University Law School and an Adjunct Professor of Paralegal Studies at Columbus
State Community College. Judge Liston co-founded the Justice Institute for the
Legal Profession, an institute devoted to the study of legal and judicial
ethics through the humanities. She teaches regularly at judicial and continuing
legal education programs throughout the U.S., having designed and taught
courses in over eighteen states for judges and lawyers on numerous topics
including criminal and traffic trial procedure, evidence, law and literature,
and judicial and legal ethics. In addition to teaching, Judge Liston has served
in leadership roles for the Ohio judiciary, including Co-Chair of Ohio Jury
Instructions Editorial Committee, member of the Ohio Judicial Conference
Executive Committee, and Education Chair for the Ohio Association of Municipal
and County Court Judges.