Terre L. Vandervoort.

Terre L. Vandervoort.

Lancaster’s law director and city prosecutor will become a judge on the Fairfield County Probate/Juvenile Court on August 5 after her appointment today by Gov. John R. Kasich. Terre L. Vandervoort replaces retired Judge Steven O. Williams.

Vandervoort must run in the November 2014 general election to serve a full six-year term starting February 9, 2015.

She received her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford in 1987 and earned her law degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1990. She was admitted to the Ohio bar later that year.

Throughout her career, Vandervoort has been committed to professional education and has completed various programs focusing on domestic violence, drug interdiction, and drunk driving among other aspects of the law.

She received the Government Attorney of the Year Award from the Ohio State Bar Foundation in 2006.