Lidia Ebersole, a local attorney and alumna of the UToledo College of Law, has been appointed to The University of Toledo Board of Trustees.
Ebersole was named by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to a term beginning July 2, 2023, and ending July 1, 2032.
Lidia Ebersole, a local attorney and alumna of the UToledo College of Law, has been appointed to The University of Toledo Board of Trustees.
“I am honored to be appointed a Trustee of this great Institution that allowed me, an immigrant from Poland, to achieve my ‘American dream,’ ” Ebersole said. “I look forward to working with the administration and the other Board members as we build upon the 150 plus years of tradition and experience and move forward into the exciting opportunities of the future.”
Ebersole is an attorney and a shareholder in the Toledo office of Roetzel & Andress, an Akron-based law firm with 13 offices, including six in Ohio. Her legal practice focuses on litigating business disputes and liability defense matters in Ohio and Michigan. She also assists clients with business- and employment-related immigration and international transactions.
Before private practice, she worked as a judicial staff attorney at the Ohio Third District Court of Appeals and as a judicial extern at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
A native of Poland, Ebersole taught English as a second language in a local public school in her home country before moving to the United States in 2006.
Ebersole received her law degree from UToledo in 2013 shortly after gaining United States citizenship. Since then, Ebersole has appeared as a guest speaker, welcoming new citizens at naturalization ceremonies in northwest Ohio.
She holds three degrees from higher education institutions in Poland. She has bachelor’s degrees in tourism from Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education and in teaching English as a second language from the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities. She has a master’s degree in teaching English from the University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz.
Ebersole is involved in the community serving as vice chair of the Ohio Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Language Services and with Perrysburg Rotary Club, Saint Thomas More Society and various Polish-American groups in the northwest Ohio area.
