Kenneth Grant Hawley

I have spent my entire career practicing law in Cincinnati.  For the last 36 years, I have represented many people who have found themselves facing a difficulty they could not manage on their own.  I receive incredible satisfaction from helping clients through challenging times, and getting them the best possible outcome available. 

Outside of work, I most enjoy time with my family.  We have recently become empty nesters, and are trying to figure that out. The four children are great, but now that they are grown and gone, and the youngest is off to college, it is the two grandchildren that make me laugh and keep me young.  Every Sunday is all about building forts and playing hide and seek with flashlights, among other activities they make up. 

My hobbies include cooking, playing the piano, oil painting, working out at the gym, and reading great fiction.  Over the last few years, I have been increasingly fascinated by the number and variety of birds who have found their way to my backyard feeders. Just watching them is relaxing and often remarkable. My most surprising hobby, and the activity that introduced me to my wife, is salsa dancing, if you can imagine that. 

In the coming years, I hope to travel to some far away places.  If I hadn't become an attorney, I would have been an architect.  To see architecture by the greats like Antoni Gaudi and others in Spain and Italy that I have never seen, would be a major event in my life.  I look forward to just taking the time to soak in all of the beauty that exists there and all over Europe.

Our awesome church has provided us with many volunteer opportunities for our family to have great experiences together. We will continue that work to bless this city. We hope to travel to Nicaraugua in 2016 to see what we can do as a church for the poorest of the poor there.

When I think about my life, I  feel like the luckiest guy alive because I have a great family, and I love the work that I do every day.  I get tremendous satisfaction out of being of service to my clients because I can make a difference for them, and truly be a lifeline to them when they are most in need.