Darrell L. Heckman is a member of the Bar of the State of Ohio, as well as the Bars of the United States District Court for the southern District of Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.  Mr. Heckman’s practice consists primarily of the following areas:

-- Personal Injury
-- Criminal Law
-- Probate
-- Crime Victim Representation
-- Appeals
-- Juvenile Law
-- General Civil Litigation

Darrell L. Heckman was admitted to the Bar of Ohio in 1975. He began his legal career in Urbana, Ohio on July 1, 1975 as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Champaign County, Ohio and also opened a part-time private practice. He left the Prosecutor's Office in October, 1976 and went out on his own full-time.

Mr. Heckman served as City Solicitor of the City of Urbana briefly in 1977 and was an elected member of the City of Urbana Charter Commission from 1977-1978, culminating in the passage of the first ever charter of the City of Urbana.

Mr. Heckman moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1979, took and passed the New Mexico Bar Examination and practiced law in Albuquerque from 1979-1980. He then returned to Urbana, Ohio and reopened his practice there.

In 1988, Mr. Heckman was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Champaign County, Ohio and served two consecutive terms as Prosecutor from January, 1989 to January, 1997. During that time, Mr. Heckman continued in his private practice on a part-time basis.

In January 1997 Mr. Heckman returned to the full time practice of law in Urbana and in February 2009 he joined the new law firm of Harris, Meyer, Heckman, and Denkewalter, L.L.C. as a partner.
   

 

Darrell L. Heckman, Attorney at Law
One Monument Square, Suite 200
 Urbana, Ohio 43078 
Phone: (937) 653-4478 and (937) 653-7186          FAX: (937) 653-3293      E-Mail Darrell Heckman