Serpil Ergun is the Administrator for Judicial Operations and Chief Magistrate of the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the largest trial courts in the state. She has over thirty years of experience as a judicial officer, deciding pre- and post-decree parenting, support, interstate parentage, and property division matters. Magistrate Ergun’s objectives for the court are to enhance access to justice and transparency, and to increase efficiency and promote public trust and confidence through technology and case management practices that improve customer experience. She holds a special interest in therapeutic jurisprudence, and is committed to alternative dispute resolution and problem-solving processes that produce beneficial outcomes for individuals involved in the legal process. She is trained in mediation, parenting coordination, and collaborative law models of dispute resolution. Magistrate Ergun holds nationally recognized certifications as a court manager and court executive from the National Center of State Courts (NCSC), and is a Fellow of NCSC’s Institute of Court Management (ICM). She is certified to teach the Purposes and Responsibilities course in the Court Management Program curriculum offered by ICM and the Ohio Judicial College. Magistrate Ergun received the 2016 Ohio Association of Magistrates’ Education Award “in recognition of extraordinary contributions to the education of Ohio’s Judiciary.” Magistrate Ergun is a member of the Ohio Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Children & Families and co-chair of its subcommittee on Family Law Reform Implementation. She is a current member of the Ohio Association of Magistrates, the Ohio Association of Domestic Relations Judges, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, the Center for Principled Family Advocacy, and the National Association of Court Management, the National Association of Presiding Judges and Court Executive Officers, and is a life member of the Judicial Conference of the Eighth Judicial District. She is also a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and was founding president of its Ohio Chapter. Magistrate Ergun has served on the Ohio Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Case Management’s subcommittee on Time Guidelines and Civil Justice Grant Program Review Committee, the 2013 Ohio Child Support Guidelines Advisory Council, and the Cuyahoga Support Enforcement Agency Advisory Board. She is active in judicial branch curriculum development and course planning for the Ohio Judicial College, and is a frequent lecturer and writer on civil justice and court reform, case management, parenting coordination, child support and medical support, best practices, and other issues for judges, magistrates, attorneys, and others in the legal community.