Mayor's Bio
BRENDA TEDESCHI BODNAR
Mayor, Mayfield Village, Ohio
- Elected November 2015
- Previously served as Chair of Mayfield Village Citizens Advisory Committee and Civil Service Commission
Education:
- Cleveland State University, BA in Communications 1981 Summa Cum Laude
- CSU Cleveland Marshall College of Law, JD 1984 Magna Cum Laude
- Licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio and U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Experience:
- 32 years in private practice with last 27 at A. Sirvaitis & Associates
- Experience includes profit and nonprofit business and individual transactional work; negotiation and drafting of contracts, commercial and residential leases; negotiation of business financing; trial and appellate advocacy.
Personal:
- Homeowner in Mayfield Village since 2001
- Married to Paul Bodnar (Photographer and Fishmonger) since 1985
- Proud mother of two daughters: Karin Bozak (Engineer in Power Systems Division of NASA) and Kristina Bodnar (Student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law)
- And one granddaughter: Leona Rose Bozak (born May 2016)