11/13/17 – 5:32 P.M.

A Hancock County Common Pleas Court judge will be running for another term next year. The Courier reports that Judge Reginald Routson announced his plan to run for the seat on Monday. Routson will file petitions with the Hancock County Board of Elections by March to run in the May primary. No other candidates have announced that they will run for the six-year position.

Routson has been a judge since 1989. He became a common pleas court judge in 1998.