Candice Hoke

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Director of the Center for Election Integrity, Candice Hoke is also Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Her expertise in election issues led to her appointment as a member of the three-person Cuyahoga Election Review Panel, which investigated the cause and remedies for the May 2, 2006 primary debacle. The Panel produced a Final Report of over 400 pages with over 300 recommendations for reform. A law professor, she is a nationally recognized and widely cited expert on constitutional federalism and major federal regulatory programs - the contexts of election law. A graduate of Yale Law School, a former judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, she currently teaches Election Law, Regulatory Federalism, Federal Courts, and Employment Law. She has held faculty appointments in the law schools of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Hoke has been solicited to write a legal casebook on election law and election administration. Her primary current academic writing combines her knowledge of regulatory federalism and election law implementation problems.

Professor Hoke considers herself a political independent, having worked as a volunteer in both republican and Democratic campaigns since the 1970s.