Timothy J. DeGeeter: raised on the line, mayor across the lake

1969 –

The tie, exactly — in conflict: Timothy J. DeGeeter's Mishawaka tie stands in conflict between its two best sources, and both are printed. The City of Parma's official staff biography says he was adopted at birth and "grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana, near South Bend." The standard biographies give his birth as June 16, 1969, in South Bend, and describe him as raised in South Bend. A boy raised in the twin cities can be both, street by street; this section prints the claim at the strength the conflict allows — a Mishawaka upbringing attested by his own city's official biography, a South Bend birth attested by the standard record — and claims no more.

The course: DeGeeter began college at Holy Cross College, at Notre Dame, Indiana, and transferred to John Carroll University, taking his bachelor's degree in 1991 and his law degree from Cleveland State University's law school in 1997. He served as a Parma, Ohio, councilman from 1998 to 2003, then in the Ohio House of Representatives from December 2003 to December 2011, and in January 2012 he took office as Parma's fourteenth mayor, the office he still held on the public record read for this section. A Mishawaka-raised mayor of Ohio's seventh-largest city belongs in this section at compact size; the conflict above is the honest size of the tie.

Sources:

1. City of Parma, Ohio, official staff directory biography ("grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana")
2. Wikipedia, "Timothy J. DeGeeter," read November 2026 (birth at South Bend; education; Ohio House and mayoral service)