Kenyon College
The Ohio State University
Kenyon College
The Ohio State University
Alan T. Radnor was born on March 10, 1946, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Robert Clark Radnor and Rose (Chester) Radnor. Cleveland lies on the southern shore of Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio, and by the time of his birth it was the largest city in the state, a major industrial and commercial center.
Radnor received a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College in 1967. Kenyon is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by the Episcopal bishop Philander Chase, and it is the oldest private college in Ohio. Its liberal arts tradition emphasizes a broad undergraduate education across the humanities and sciences.
He continued his studies at The Ohio State University, which was established in 1870 as a land-grant institution in Columbus, and received a Master of Science in anatomy in 1969. Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma are among the honor societies with which he was associated during his education.
He received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Ohio State University College of Law in 1972. He was a member of the Order of the Coif, the legal honor society, and of the Ohio State Law Journal in 1971 and 1972, and he was associated with the legal fraternity Tau Epsilon Rho. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1972.
Radnor's legal career centered on Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, a firm founded in 1909 by four Columbus lawyers, Arthur I. Vorys, Lowry F. Sater, Augustus T. Seymour, and Edward L. Pease. The firm is headquartered in Columbus and has grown into an international practice with offices in several states. Radnor became a partner there and worked in trial practice, medicolegal law, and medical malpractice.
He represented both defendants and plaintiffs in medical malpractice, toxic tort, and personal injury cases in Ohio state and federal courts. His practice areas also included housing and urban development law, real estate lending, and commercial real estate leasing, reflecting the broad commercial work of a large regional firm. He served as a resident partner in the firm's Cincinnati office in the course of this career.
Alongside his practice, he taught as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at The Ohio State University College of Law from 1980. Ohio State's law school, now the Michael E. Moritz College of Law, is the state university's professional school for lawyers. By 2015, when his book on cross-examining psychiatrists and psychologists was published, he was described as a retired partner of the firm.
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1999Radnor is affiliated with Judaism, a monotheistic religion with origins in ancient Israel. Its central sacred texts include the Torah, and its ethical tradition emphasizes covenantal responsibility, the study of scripture, and communal worship. Judaism has several branches, including Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform, which differ in their approaches to religious law and observance.
In the United States, Jewish communities grew substantially in the decades after the Second World War, and many of them built synagogues, schools, and charitable institutions. Radnor's adult life unfolded within this American setting, in the Ohio cities of Columbus and Cincinnati.
Radnor is affiliated with the Democratic Party. The party traces its origins to the Jacksonian movement of the 1820s and 1830s and has been one of the two major parties in American politics since the mid-nineteenth century. Its principles have included support for broad economic opportunity, government programs addressing social welfare, and civil rights, although its internal currents have varied across regions and periods.
During Radnor's professional life, the party's coalition in Ohio drew on urban centers such as Columbus and Cleveland, where he was born and practiced law. Debates over civil rights, organized labor, and the role of the federal government shaped the party through the late twentieth century.
Radnor was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only fellowship of experienced trial lawyers that promotes the highest standards of trial advocacy and ethics. His college profile associates him with the Teaching of Trial and Appellate Advocacy Committee and with the Ohio chapter.
His bar memberships included the American Bar Association, the national professional association of lawyers founded in 1878, along with the Ohio State Bar Association, the Columbus Bar Association, and the Cincinnati Bar Association. He also belonged to the Defense Research Institute and the International Association of Defense Counsel, organizations that serve lawyers who defend clients in civil litigation.
Radnor was president of the Columbus Defense Association from 1980 to 1981, a local group of defense lawyers. He was also a member of the Ohio Hospital Association, the statewide association of Ohio hospitals, and he served on the ethics committee of Children's Hospital in Columbus, which reflected his medical-legal practice. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Columbus Museum of Art from 1994 to 1998.
His honor society memberships included Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest American collegiate honor society, founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, and Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for business programs. He was also a member of the Order of the Coif, the legal honor society.
Fellow
American College of Trial Lawyers , United States
American Bar Association , United States
Ohio State Bar Association , United States
Columbus Bar Association , United States
Cincinnati Bar Association , United States
Defense Research Institute , United States
International Association of Defense Counsel , United States
Ohio Hospital Association , United States
President
Columbus Defense Association , United States
1980 - 1981
Children's Hospital Ethics Committee , United States
1982
Member of the Board of Trustees
Columbus Museum of Art , United States
1994 - 1998
Phi Beta Kappa , United States
Beta Gamma Sigma , United States
Order of the Coif , United States
Tau Epsilon Rho , United States
Radnor married Carol Sue Hirsch on June 22, 1969. The couple had three children, Melanie, Joshua, and Joanna.
