Katherine Hine

Katherine Hine is a Chillicothe, Ohio attorney and executive director of The Ross County Network for Children, a child advocacy organization. Hine is currently in South America organizing a project for that organization, and engaging in professional writing, editing, and translation services.

Hine earned a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University in 1966, a law degree from the University of Toledo in 1976, and studied and taught in the law school of Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand during 1982.

Hine practiced family law in Muskogee, Oklahoma from 1983 until 1996. In 1994 she became a candidate for district court judge for the 15th Judicial District of Oklahoma, losing to incumbent Lyle Burris. Hine was also involved in the Oklahoma organization Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN). In 1997 the Oklahoma Supreme Court issued professional discipline against her in connection with her child advocacy activities as a member of SCAN. The United States Supreme Court summarily declined to rule on the First Amendment issues raised in her Petition for Writ of Certiorari later in 1997. In 1999 Hine authored the article: Retaliation Against Professionals Who Report Child Abuse.

In 2002 the Ohio Supreme Court declined to review an appellate decision from Ohio’s Fourth District Court of Appeals in Parrish v. Parrish, an appeal filed by Hine from a trial court decision denying a civil protection order. 95 OhioSt.3d 1201 (2002) Two justices dissented, stating that the decision denying the civil protection order should have been vacated. http://vlex.com/vid/parrish-v-21219084

On November 25, 2008 Hine filed a class action complaint on behalf of citizens in Chillicothe, Ohio challenging the legal validity of a 2007 Chillicothe ordinances authorizing Redflex Traffic Systems to install red light/speed cameras in Chillicothe. Ross County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Case No. 08CI000999. Subsequently Hine assisted the Ross County community organization CAPE by drafting legislation repealing the traffic camera ordinances. Citizens circulated initiative containing this proposed legislation during 2009 and prior to Chillicothe’s November, 2009 election.

The ballot initiative passed by 72 percentof the vote against the traffic cameras.