Mike Dovilla

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Mike Dovilla, born March 13, 1975, in Cleveland, Ohio, is a Republican politician and consultant from Berea. He grew up in Berea and studied at Baldwin Wallace College and American University. He is a U.S. Navy Reserve lieutenant commander and served a year in Iraq in 2007–2008. Dovilla has worked as a presidential appointee at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, as a staffer for U.S. Senator George Voinovich, and as a Presidential Management Intern at the U.S. Department of State. He runs The Dovilla Group, a strategic consulting firm, and began a two-year term as national president of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity in July 2016.

Dovilla was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2010 and served from January 2011 to December 2016, representing the district that later became the 7th District. He defeated incumbent Matt Patten in 2010 and was reelected in 2012 by a narrow margin. While in the House, he served on committees including Economic and Small Business Development; Education (vice-chair in 2012); State Government and Elections and its Subcommittee on Redistricting; and Ways and Means (vice-chair 2011–2012). He also served as a non-voting member of the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission from 2011 to 2016. In 2014, Patten withdrew, leaving Dovilla unopposed. In 2016, Dovilla did not run for re-election to the House and instead ran for the Ohio Senate, but lost the Republican primary to Matt Dolan.