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Lauren B. Forbes
On January 2, 2005, Timothy F. Hagan became one of only four County Commissioners to hold non-consecutive terms in Cuyahoga County. With his twenty-one years of service as a Cuyahoga County Commissioner, Tim Hagan is the fourth longest serving Commissioner. He is currently a member of the County Planning Commission (CPC), District One Public Works Integrating Committee (DOPWIC), United Way, Investment Advisory Committee, Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management District, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), Chair of the Criminal Justice Services Supervisory Board, and Member of the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland.
Throughout his public career, Tim’s passion has been health and human service issues. In his prior terms, he focused on foster care and adoption. He also served as the chair of the Cuyahoga County Welfare Reform Council. Tim has served as a trustee of Malachi House Hospice, Freedom House Inc., Youth Opportunities Unlimited, and the Greater Cleveland Trade Alliance. He was previously a member of the Technology Leadership Council of Cleveland Tomorrow and served as the Executive Committee Member of the 10th Congressional District’s Future Leaders for Greater Cleveland Government (FLAG) Foundation. He has consulted for the Mandel Foundation, served for fifteen years as a Board Member of the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, and is a lifetime member of the NAACP.
After serving his country in the U. S. Army with NATO forces in Europe, Tim was honorably discharged in 1968. He then attended and graduated from Cleveland State University’s College of Urban Affairs under the GI Bill. He began his career as a social worker in a Youngstown public housing project where his family lived after World War II. There Tim developed an understanding of the struggles working poor families endure daily.
A lifelong Democrat, Tim has worked on numerous campaigns for federal, state, and local officials. He has served as Chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party. In 1982, he was appointed to the vacant position as Cuyahoga County Recorder. Tim was elected to his first term on the Board of County Commissioners in 1982, where he served until 1998, then was re-elected in 2004. He was appointed as a Member of the Board of Trustees of Olmsted Township, resigning in 2000 to accept his Party’s nomination to run for Governor of Ohio.
Tim has been a faculty member at Case Western Reserve’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. In 1997, Tim was the recipient of the Levin College of Urban Affairs In Tribute to Public Service Award in recognition of his exemplary leadership in public office. In 1998, he received an honorary law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Tim is the son of Ada and the late Robert Hagan. One of fourteen children, Tim was born in Youngstown in 1946, shortly after his twin brother Jim. Tim attended St. Rose grade school and is a Graduate of Ursuline High School in Youngstown. He currently resides in Olmsted Township with his family.
Revised 09/30/08