Judge Annette Garner Butler’s legal career included service as an Equal Opportunity Specialist for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s Office of Civil Rights; Attorney with Guren, Merritt, Sogg and Cohen; 24 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office; Hearing Officer with the Cuyahoga County Board of Revision; Judge on the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, and Assistant Director of Law for the City of Cleveland. Judge Butler served as President of the Black Women Lawyers Association, President of the Federal Bar Association’s Northern District of Ohio Chapter, the first elected woman President and first woman Board Chair of the City Club of Cleveland, and President of both the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library and the Shaker Heights Public Library. She was the Urban League of Cleveland’s Woman of the Year. She was a member of Cleveland State University’s Board of Trustees from 1982-1989, including two terms each as Vice Chair and Treasurer, followed by 23 years as a member of the CSU FoundationBoard of Directors and Emeritus Director since 2012. She is a life member of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association and a former member of the Law Dean’s Roundtable. She received the George B. Davis Award for Service to the University in 2016.