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Board of County Commissioners

About Todd Portune

Born in 1958, Todd Portune grew up in Cincinnati (Price Hill) and Colerain Township. Todd Currently resides in Green Township with his wife of 19 years [Angie] and three children. Notwithstanding these west side connections Todd has been a true regional resident as he has lived in Clifton, Downtown, Walnut Hills and Newport Kentucky.

Todd attended public schools, graduating from Colerain High School as National Merit Scholar in 1976. He was named a “Colerain Distinguished Graduate” in 2002. Todd went on to study political science at Oberlin College in Ohio. He graduated from Oberlin in 1980 and was inducted into the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. Todd was accepted to law school at the University of Cincinnati where he became president of the Student Bar Association, received Order of the Barristers honors and graduated in 1983.

As an attorney, Todd practiced law primarily in the areas of employment and civil rights law and later he developed a niche practice in the area of Kentucky Mineral Rights law for which he was named both a Kentucky Colonel and a Duke of Hazard, Ky., Todd has been a practicing attorney for 25 years and he recently complemented that by providing professional consulting services to the Inclusion Network – a non-profit advocacy agency for people with disabilities. Today, Todd balances his public service with his private law practice at Cook, Portune & Logothetis.

Todd served on a number of Boards and Commissions prior to commencing his tenure as an elected official including serving as a Barrister on the Potter Stewart Inns of Court; Committee Member on the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Minority Lawyer Task Force; Board Member of the Hamilton County Community Action Agency; and was appointed by Cincinnati Mayor Dwight Tillery to be a Commissioner on the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission. Todd also volunteered as an attorney through the Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor program managed by the Cincinnati Bar Association. He has been a frequent speaker and lecturer at Bar Association seminars.

Todd‘s service as an elected official began in January 1993, when he was appointed to Cincinnati City Council and was elected thereafter to four separate terms on Council, including two terms as President Pro Tem of the Council. Todd chaired Cincinnati City Council’s Law & Public Safety Committee, Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, Select Committee on Special Projects; and Public Works Committee. He sat on the City of Cincinnati’s Retirement Board and on the city’s Special Select Committee on Investigating the Full-Body Human radiation Experiments at the University of Cincinnati.

On November 2, 2000, Todd was elected to the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners and he was re-elected to a second full term as Commissioner on November 2, 2004. Commissioner Portune serves as the Chair of the County’s Homeland Security Commission, is Chair of the Hamilton County Solid Waste Management District Policy Committee, is Chair of the Hamilton County Transportation Improvement District, is President of the County Family and Children First Council, is Vice-Chair of the County Emergency Management Agency, and sits on the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana (OKI) Regional Council of Governments Board of Trustees.