UToledo Board of Trustees

Lidia B. Ebersole (2032)

Lydia EbersoleLidia B. Ebersole was appointed to The University of Toledo Board of Trustees by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine in 2023 to a term beginning July 2, 2023 and ending July 1, 2032.

Ebersole is an attorney and a shareholder in the Toledo office of Roetzel & Andress, an Akron-based law firm with 13 offices, including six in Ohio. Her legal practice focuses on litigating business disputes and liability defense matters in Ohio and Michigan. She also assists clients with business- and employment-related immigration and international transactions, especially with her home country of Poland. Before private practice, she worked as a judicial staff attorney at the Ohio Third District Court of Appeals and as a judicial extern at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Ebersole was born and raised in Lukow, Poland, where she taught English as a second language in a local public school. She received two undergraduate degrees in tourism and teaching English as a second language and a master’s degree in teaching English while in Poland.

She moved to the United States in 2006 and received her law degree from UToledo shortly after gaining United States citizenship. Since then, Ebersole has appeared as a guest speaker, welcoming new citizens at naturalization ceremonies in northwest Ohio.

Ebersole gives back to the community by serving as vice chair of the Ohio Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Language Services and by being involved in numerous service organizations, including the Perrysburg Rotary Club, Saint Thomas More Society and various Polish-American groups in the northwest Ohio area.

Last Updated: 11/4/24