Bradley J. Proudfoot began representing the City of Wadsworth as its Director of Law on January 1, 2024. Prior to being the Law Director, he served as the Assistant Law Director beginning in January of 2020. As the Assistant Law Director, Brad prosecuted all of the misdemeanor criminal and traffic cases in the City of Wadsworth, villages of Lodi and Westfield Center as well as the surrounding townships in the Wadsworth Municipal Court.
Bradley has diverse legal experience in both the private and public sector. Prior to working for the City of Wadsworth, he was a civil litigator for the firm of Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston, Ltd., spent four years with the Wadsworth based law firm of Palecek, McIlvaine, Hoffmann & Morse, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge Michael W. LaBeau of the 38th Circuit Court in Michigan. He has represented and advised multiple municipalities, school districts, and other quasi-public entities during the course of his legal career.
Mr. Proudfoot is a graduate of Kent State University with a B.A. in psychology, Magna Cum Laude, and the University of Toledo where he was in a dual degree program earning a Master of Public Administration and a Juris Doctorate. At the University of Toledo - College of Law, he was a member of the Environmental Law Moot Court team and had an externship with the City of Toledo’s Law Department working under Donald M. Collins, who is the current General Counsel/Assistant Executive Director for the Ohio State Employment Relations Board.
Brad lives in Wadsworth with his two daughters Sophie and Indigo.
Civic and Professional Involvement
- Medina County Bar Association
- Past President, 2020
- Executive Committee, 2017-2020
- Chair, Law Day Scholarship Committee, 2019
- Chair, New Lawyers Committee, 2014-2017
- Lions Club International – Wadsworth Chapter
- Past President, 2021-2022
- Wadsworth Public Library Foundation
- Vice-President, 2018-2022
- Secretary, 2017
- Medina County Law Library Resources Board
- Project LEARN of Medina County
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Wadsworth Area Chamber of Commerce
Accomplishments
- Medina Gazette’s Best of the Best Attorney, 2019
- Community Volunteer of the Year, Wadsworth Area Chamber of Commerce, 2019
- Public Service Commendation, University of Toledo – College of Law, 2010
Bar Admissions
- All of Ohio State Courts
- United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio
Education
- University of Toledo – College of Law, Juris Doctor
- University of Toledo, Master of Public Administration
- Kent State University, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Magna Cum Laude