Education
Young served in the United States Army for three years, and attended Kent State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
Young served in the United States Army for three years, and attended Kent State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
He served in the same seat from 1997 to 2004. He taught before founding Technical Employment Services Incorporated. in 1981. He has been married since 1974 and has five daughters.
Young first sought to replace Ray Sines in 1996, when he defeated Sines in the Republican primary by 150 votes.
Young, term-limited, initially filed to run for the Ohio Senate in 2004, but withdrew and ran for Lake County, Ohio Treasurer by filing day. In early 2010, Young announced that he would seek to return to his former seat in the fall elections.
While he faced no primary opposition, he faced incumbent Mark Schneider in the general election. He defeated Schneider to with 53.14% of the vote.
Young was sworn into his fifth overall term on January 3, 2011.
He serves on the committees of State Government and Elections. Veterans Affairs, Criminal Justice. And Commerce and Labor (as chairman).
He will be representing the 61st District, which replaces the 63rd District.
Although Young"s district has a strong blue collar population, he remained a proponent of a bill that set forth to limit collective bargaining for public employees. He is especially in favor of a measure that allows workers who do not want to join the union to not have to pay dues.
He voted for the bill out of committee, calling his vote a matter of mathematics. Young voted for final passage of the bill, and stated that he believes that public employees are still properly protected.
Young, along with Lynn Slaby, has proposed legislation that aims to speed up resolutions surrounding consumer lawsuits.