Background
DeGeeter, Timothy was born in 1969 in South Bend, Indiana, United States.
DeGeeter, Timothy was born in 1969 in South Bend, Indiana, United States.
After being raised in South Bend, Indiana, DeGeeter attended Holy Cross College before transferring to John Carroll University.
He obtained a law degree from Cleveland Marshall School of Law, and has been a law director, prosecutor, and in a private law practice. DeGeeter served as a Parma, Ohio City Councilman from 1998-2003. In late November, it was announced that a House screening committee had chosen DeGeeter.
He is ineligible to seek reelection in 2012.
However, in the end this was not the case. In 2009, Speaker of the House Armond Budish named DeGeeter Chairman of the House Public Utilities Committee.
However, when Representative Tyrone Yates resigned, DeGeeter was appointed as Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee. He was replaced on Public Utilities by Representative Allan Sayre.
DeGeeter was sworn into his final term on January 3, 2011.
On January 27, 2011, DeGeeter announced he would run for Mayor of Parma in 2011.
After the 2008 election, DeGeeter was mentioned as a potential member of the new Democratic House majority leadership. He is currently serving as ranking member of the Public Utilities Committee, and as a member of the Local Government Committee, and the Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.
Married Pamela DeGeeter.