Biography of Honorable Scott Altenburger
Judge Scott Altenburger was first elected in 2018 to fill an unexpired term, to serve as Judge of the Miami County Juvenile and Probate Court. He was again re-elected Judge in 2020. He earned his Juris Doctorate from The University of Toledo, School of Law and a Bachelor Degree in Education from the University of Toledo receiving a state teaching license 7th grade – 12th grades. He has completed the necessary course work through the Ohio Supreme Court to mediate family law cases.
Judge Altenburger’s life, education and career experiences make him uniquely qualified to lead the courts. He has been a magistrate and later appointed chief magistrate of the Miami County Court of Common Pleas, General Division from May, 1995 to November, 2018. In these roles, he personally handled in excess of 30,000 family law cases. For more than 18 years, he has been an adjunct instructor for Edison State Community College teaching Family Law and Legal Research and Writing. Additionally, he taught paralegal courses at Capital University Law School. He has given legal presentations to the Miami County Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association, Dayton Bar Association, Lucas County Bar Association, Toledo Bar Association, and the Ohio Association of Magistrates. Prior to being a magistrate, he was an assistant city law director, assistant county prosecutor, and mayor’s court magistrate. Since being elected, Judge Altenburger has secured over a million dollars in state grants for the operation of the court and court programs. He secured an $85,000.00 grant from the Ohio Supreme Court for courtroom video equipment to effectively and efficiently handle cases during the Covid-19 pandemic. He and his court have handled over 3,500 probate cases and 11,000 juvenile cases. Judge Altenburger believes experience, integrity and fairness are the hallmarks of an effective judge. He pledges to give each case the individual attention, which families in Miami County deserve, while adhering to the rule of law. As a fiscal conservative, he believes in the teamwork concept to ensure effective government that is efficiently run in a responsible manner. He is a member of the Miami County Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Ohio Association of Domestic Relations Judges, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and past member of the Ohio Magistrates Association.
He has been married for over 36 years to Kay Altenburger, a registered nurse and retired school treasurer. They have two daughters: Dr. Lauren Altenburger Hastings, graduate of The Ohio State University and an assistant professor at Penn State University, and Dr. Kristen Altenburger, graduate of Stanford University and senior research scientist at Meta.
