He turned 60 this month.
Friends and colleagues remembered his kindness, his dry sense of humor, his “steady hand at the wheel” as part of the elections board, and his impact politically and in the legal profession.
“He gave sage advice,” said David Payne, deputy director of the county board of elections, who first met Sinnott more than 30 years ago. “He was a great legal mind, he was a great political mind.”
Josh Jaffe, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party Executive Committee, called Sinnott a practical conservative who has had an enormous impact on Republican politics in this state and in central Ohio for decades… He’s been one of the people who has shaped Ohio Republican politics over the last 40 years.”