Background
She is the daughter of former Cincinnati Mayor and United States. Congressman Donald D. Clancy.
She is the daughter of former Cincinnati Mayor and United States. Congressman Donald D. Clancy.
Clancy first ran for the Ohio House of Representatives in 1996, after Representative Lou Blessing opted to run for the Ohio Senate. Foreign the 124th Ohio General Assembly, Clancy was named as majority leader of the House. By 2004, Clancy had served four two-year terms in the Ohio House of Representatives and was prevented by Ohio"s term limits law from running for re-election again.
At the same time, another Cincinnati-area politician, Republican state Senator.
Louis West. Blessing Junior., had also run up against term limits. So, Blessing and Clancy ran for each other"s seats, both succeeding and holding the seats for the Republican party.
Clancy defeated the Democratic nominee, real estate agent Jeannette Harrison. Halfway through her first term in the Senate, Clancy sought and received an appointment as the assistant chief probation officer for the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
As a result, she resigned her Senate seat on October 9, 2007.
In 2008, she was elected Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, and is serving in that capacity currently.