On The Record: The Podcast of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court

Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold Retirement Interview

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court

Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold was a true trail blazer. Judge Saffold joined our Bench in 1995. After Judge Lillian Greene, Judge Saffold was the second Black female elected to our Bench, and was the longest serving. Her son, Jeffrey Saffold, is now a Common Pleas Judge and her daughter, Sydney Saffold, sits on the Cleveland Municipal Bench where her mom began her Judicial career