BARBARA A. WYLY, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE, SUPERIOR COURT 1

BARBARA A. WYLY, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE, SUPERIOR COURT 1

In the listing of Democratic Candidates in Dearborn County, Barbara A. Wyly, Democratic Candidate for Superior Court 1 Judge, was inadvertently omitted. She is running against Franklin County Deputy Prosecutor Jon Cleary. Barbara served five years active and four years reserve duty as a Judge Advocate (JAG) Officer with the United States Air Force and is a former Assistant United States Attorney. She has practiced law for 28 years, the last 13 years in Dearborn County. She was the attorney for the Department of Child Services for Dearborn and Ohio Counties for 11 years and was responsible trying the child abuse and neglect cases of all the children who are reported neglected and abused in those counties. More than 100 children are in safe permanent homes due to termination of parental rights cases she tried in front of Dearborn and Ohio County Courts: cases that one local judge called “the closest thing to a death penalty case he had ever had to hear.” Many of those termination of parental rights cases went up on appeal, and not one was ever overturned on appeal.

Barbara has also spent an equal number of years as a public defender, so she understands the balance between the rights of the accused and the rights of the public. She currently practices law in Bright, Indiana where she practices domestic relations, criminal, personal injury, debt collection, real property and estate planning and probate law. If you have a question for Barbara, or would like to contact her, you can reach her at barbwyly@yahoo.com. She will be a guest on the flypod on October 16 and would like to answer your questions in that program.