Maureen O'Connor is an American lawyer and judge who served as the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 2011 to 2022.
She was elected to the court in 2002, becoming chief justice in 2010.
She was the first woman to lead the Ohio Supreme Court and the longest serving woman elected statewide in Ohio's History.
A lobbyist's death leads FBI investigators to expose a $61M slush fund scheme linking Ohio's House Speaker to a billion-dollar corporate bailout through super PAC financing.
Trace the tangled history of campaign finance back to the creation of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in 1975, the 2002 McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, and the Citizens United decision of 2010 that has molded the shape and opacity of present-day super PACs which now flood the system with money.