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)