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Board of County Commissioners

About Todd Portune

Born in 1958, Todd Portune grew up in Cincinnati (Price Hill) and Colerain Township. Todd currently resides in Green Township with his three children. Notwithstanding these west side connections Todd has been a true regional resident as he has lived in Clifton, Downtown, Walnut Hills and Newport Kentucky.

Todd attended public schools, graduating from Colerain High School as National Merit Scholar in 1976. He was named a "Colerain Distinguished Graduate" in 2002. Todd went on to study political science at Oberlin College in Ohio. He graduated from Oberlin in 1980, and was inducted into the college's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. Todd was accepted to law school at the University of Cincinnati where he became president of the Student Bar Association, received Order of the Barristers honors and graduated in 1983.

As an attorney, Todd practiced law primarily in the areas of employment and civil rights law and later he developed a niche practice in the area of Kentucky Mineral Rights law for which he was named both a Kentucky Colonel and a Duke of Hazard, Kentucky. Todd has been a practicing attorney for over 25 years, and he also complimented that by providing professional consulting services to the Inclusion Network - a non-profit advocacy agency for people with disabilities. Today, Todd balances his public service with his private law practice at Cook, Portune and Logothetis.

In January 1993, Todd was appointed to Cincinnati City Council and was elected thereafter to four separate terms on Council. As a Cincinnati City Council member, Todd was instrumental in creating the nationally recognized River Quality Index to advise the public of bacterial levels of the Ohio River. Portune also demonstrated his commitment to basic services as a member of council. His leadership and initiatives resulted in free yard waste collection, improvement of the city's policy with regard to repair sidewalks, a doubling of the city's response to snow and ice removal, the creation of drop-off parking sites and free 10 minute metered parking throughout downtown Cincinnati and increased street repairs. Todd personally negotiated over $100 Million in city and county assistance to the Cincinnati Public Schools and he also initiated the city's first anti-gang unit. Todd authored the city's Tax Reform Act of 1998 providing tax relief and other benefits to city taxpayers.

On November 2, 2000, Todd was elected to the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners, and he was re-elected to a second full term as Commissioner on November 2, 2004. He is currently serving his third term having been re-elected in 2008. Commissioner Portune serves as Chair of the county's Homeland Security Commission Executive Committee, is Chair of the Hamilton County Solid Waste Management District Policy Committee, served as President of the County Family and Children First Council, sits on the Regional Health Collaborative Council, serves as First Vice President on the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana (OKI) Regional Council of Governments Board of Trustees, is Chair of the Hamilton County Transportation Improvement District and serves on the Regional Terrorism Preparedness Advisory Team.