Michael P. Donnelly has been a prosecutor, a criminal defense lawyer, and was a trial court judge for 14 years. He is now finishing up his sixth year as an associate justice of Ohio’s highest court, seeking re-election to another six-year term. That range of experiences helps explain his passion about judicial reforms to address what he calls “preposterous disparities in sentences” and “needless delays” at the trial-court level. Beyond that, Donnelly, 57, increasingly worries “politicization of the judiciary” is undermining public confidence in our system of laws.