About Ohio DUI / OVI / OMVI Defense Lawyer
Charles M. Rowland II
The Law Office of Charles M. Rowland II is a proven litigation practice handling state and federal cases in the Miami Valley and throughout Ohio. Charles Rowland has been a trial lawyer in Greene County since the beginning of his practice. He is a 1988 graduate of Beavercreek High School and a life-long resident of Beavercreek, Ohio. He graduated magna cum laude from Wright State University in 1992, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a minor in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology. Charles earned the University Honors Scholar with Honors in Political Science, got an Academic Letter Award, was awarded Phi Kappa Phi honors and was chosen to stand for Wright State University as a Student Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
He was awarded the H. E. Ashcroft Memorial Scholarship to go to Ohio Northern University's Pettit College of Law. While in law school, Charles studied as a visiting scholar at the University College London, Bentham Faculty of Laws and served as an Associate Justice on the Ohio Northern University Moot Court Program. He got his law degree in 1995, graduating in the top 25% of his class and was named to the prestigious Order of the Barristers for excellence in appellate advocacy. Following law school, he returned to the Miami Valley to practice in his home town.
Charles Rowland has appeared as an expert on television, radio and in newspapers. He has been in the 2005-2006 edition of the National Register of Who’s Who in Executive and Professionals and was the 2004 Ohio State Bar Foundation recipient of the Community Service Award for Attorneys under 40 years old. In 2005, Charles Rowland was given the singular honor of being named a Fellow of the Ohio State Bar Foundation. Charles Rowland keeps memberships in the Ohio State Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Foundation, the Green County Bar Association, the Montgomery County Bar Association, the National College for DUI Defense, the National Motorists Association, the Ohio Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, and is an associate attorney with the Cochran Firm, Criminal Defense Section, the National Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and DUI Defenders, a national network of DUI defense lawyers. Mr. Rowland at present serves as Vice-President for the Greene County Bar Association.
In November 2005, Charles was re-elected to serve a four-year term on the Beavercreek Board of Education. He is co-founder and past-president of the Beavercreek High School Alumni Association, Treasurer of the Wright State Honors Advisory Council, advisor to the Board of Directors of the Beavercreek Wetlands Association, and served on the St. Luke Parish Council where he has volunteered as a School of religion teacher. He now serves on the Board of Directors of The Community Network (TCN-BHS), Greene County's Mental Health provider and on the Legislative Committee of the Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce.
Charles M. Rowland II has been a trial attorney since beginning his practice in 1995. He has served as a Special Prosecutor for Greene County, the Xenia City Prosecutor, as counsel for the Greene County Public Defender's Office and has helped indigent clients in consumer related cases with Southeastern Ohio Legal Aid Services. He stands for traffic clients throughout Ohio for Interstate Trucker Ltd. and the National Motorists Association. Charles Rowland's practice areas include all phases of criminal defense, DUI/OVI law, traffic law, consumer law, personal injury/accident law, juvenile law and appellate practice.
