Andy Douglas City Council Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS-238

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The majority of this collection consists of correspondence between Councilman Douglas and Toledo resisdents. Many of the letters address common citizen concerns: parking, traffic, noise disturbances, and nuisance businesses, among other topics. Also included is a report prepared for the Toledo Division of Police; subjects in this report include identification of problem areas, resource allocation, police organization, and call distribution.

Dates

Creation: 1974-1977

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Materials may be accessed by request at the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections on the fifth floor of the William S. Carlson Library on the main campus of the University of Toledo. Materials do not circulate.

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Andrew (Andy) Grant Douglas was born in 1932. A 1950 graduate of Woodward High School, he served in the U.S. Army Infantry and Signal Corps from 1954 to 1956 and later attended the University of Toledo, graduating with a law degree in 1959. Two years later, at age 29, he was elected to Toledo City Council, where he served until 1980. That same year, he was elected to the Ohio 6th District Court of Appeals. Four years later, he was elected Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and won two more six-year terms in 1990 and 1996.

During his time as a justice, Douglas proved himself a champion of workers' rights. Some of his decisions included expanding workers' rights compensation and increasing liabilities for insurance companies.

Justice Douglas retired on December 31, 2002, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 70. He later became a partner at the Columbus firm of Crabbe, Brown & James.