Editing Cleveland (section)

=== Government and courts ===
Cleveland operates on a [[Strong-mayor|mayor–council (strong mayor)]] form of government, in which the mayor is the [[executive (government)|chief executive]] and the city council serves as the legislative branch. City council members are elected from 17 [[ward (politics)|ward]]s to four-year terms. From 1924 to 1931, the city briefly experimented with a [[council–manager government]] under [[William R. Hopkins]] and [[Daniel E. Morgan]] before returning to the mayor–council system.<ref name="politics">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Richardson |first=James F. |title=Politics |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/p/politics |access-date=August 5, 2019 |date=June 18, 2018 }}</ref>

Cleveland is served by Cleveland Municipal Court, the first municipal court in the state.<ref>{{cite web |title=Court History |publisher=Cleveland Municipal Court |url=https://clevelandmunicipalcourt.org/court-history |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303072100/https://clevelandmunicipalcourt.org/court-history |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 3, 2022 |access-date=August 8, 2023 }}</ref> The city also anchors the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio|U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio]], based at the [[Carl B. Stokes United States Courthouse|Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse]] and the historic [[Howard M. Metzenbaum United States Courthouse|Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse]]. The Chief Judge for the Northern District is [[Sara Elizabeth Lioi]] and the Clerk of Court is Sandy Opacich.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi Sworn In as Chief Judge |date=June 7, 2023 |publisher=United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |url=https://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/news/us-district-judge-sara-lioi-sworn-chief-judge |access-date=June 9, 2023 }}</ref> The U.S. Attorney is Carol Skutnik and the U.S. Marshal is Peter Elliott.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ferrise |first=Adam |title=New interim federal prosecutor in northern Ohio takes over |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |url=https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2025/01/new-interim-federal-prosecutor-in-northern-ohio-takes-over.html |date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=January 15, 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Northern District of Ohio United States Marshal – Peter J. Elliott |date=October 2020 |publisher=U.S. Marshals Service |url=https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/about-us/marshals-biography/peter-j-elliott |access-date=August 7, 2022 }}</ref>