Pickaway County Prosecutor
Jayme Hartley Fountain
Prosecutor
- Location
- 143 East Main St.
Circleville, OH 43113 - Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 910
Circleville, OH 43113 - Phone
- (740) 474-6066
- Fax
- (740) 477-7475
- Hours
- 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Jayme Hartley Fountain, Prosecutor
Jayme is a 1998 Logan Elm High School graduate. She attended the University of Kentucky where she earned her B.S. in Chemistry and met her husband Will. They were married three days after her final undergraduate exam. They thankfully landed back in Pickaway County close to family where Jayme then completed her law degree from Capital University in 2006. She landed a position as an Assistant Prosecutor in Pickaway County, where she served as an assistant for 18 years. In 2024 she was elected Prosecutor. She is very proud of her roots and her Pickaway County heritage. Her father retired from Circleville DuPont after 30 years and her mother taught for 30 years with 29 of those being in the Logan Elm School District. She is humbled and thankful to the voters of Pickaway County who elected her to serve as their County Prosecutor and looks forward to prosecuting felons and maintaining the order of law within Pickaway County as she has for the last 18 years in her role as an assistant prosecutor. Jayme and Will are very excited to be raising their daughter in Pickaway County.
Ohio law authorizes the County Prosecuting Attorney to prosecute all criminal conduct occurring in Pickaway County. The County Prosecutor’s Office prosecutes cases involving adult felony and associated misdemeanor offenses, and juvenile delinquency matters that would be felony or misdemeanor criminal offenses if committed by an adult.
Circleville City Law Director, Kendra C. Kinney, prosecutes cases involving solely misdemeanor-level offenses. To contact Circleville Municipal Court call 740-474-3171.
In addition to its criminal prosecution responsibilities, the County Prosecutor’s Office is also responsible for representing the legal interests of all county and township elected officials, all county departments, and all county boards. As their legal counsel, the Prosecuting Attorney provides legal advice and acts upon their direction regarding any legal issue they determine to pursue or defend.
The County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is composed of four main divisions, the Criminal Division, Juvenile Division, Civil Division and the Victims of Crime Program.
The office consists of the elected county prosecutor, four assistant prosecutors, two victim advocates and three office assistants.
County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
- Jayme Hartley Fountain, Prosecuting Attorney
- jfountain@pickawaycountyohio.gov
- Heather MJ Carter, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
- hcarter@pickawaycountyohio.gov
- Tony Chamberlain, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
- tchamberlain@pickawaycountyohio.gov
Legal and Administrative Support Staff
- Tammy Deck
- tdeck@pickawaycountyohio.gov
- Angela Hedges
- ahedges@pickawaycountyohio.gov
- Misti Roese
- mroese@pickawaycountyohio.gov
Victims of Crime Program
- Wendy Gatewood, Director
- wgatewood@pickawaycountyohio.gov
- Katie Brown, Advocate
- cmbrown@pickawaycountyohio.gov
- Phone
- 740-474-1781
General Information
Prosecutor Fountain and the Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys work closely with all law enforcement agencies within Pickaway County, assisting in the direction of investigations and other activities necessary to see that offenders receive fair and impartial treatment under the law and that justice is carried out in the best interests of the citizens of Pickaway County.
Reporting Criminal Activity
Reports of criminal activity should be reported to your local city’s police department or if you live outside the city report to the County Sheriff’s Department. In the event of an emergency, dial 9-1-1. Law enforcement can be reached at the following numbers:
- Circleville Police Department
- 740-477-8231
- Ashville Police Department
- 740-983-3112
- South Bloomfield Police Department
- 740-983-9482
- Pickaway Co. Sheriff’s Department
- 740-477-2176
- Ohio State Highway Patrol
- 740-983-2538
Under Ohio law, Prosecutors are not authorized to provide legal advice or counsel to the general public, nor are they authorized to represent or defend private citizens in their capacity as Prosecutors. You can contact a private attorney or contact Legal Aid at 1-800-686-3668.
Felony Sentencing Post-HB86 RC 2929.13 and 2929.14 effective September 30, 2011
Former Pickaway County Prosecutors
- 1810-1816: Richard Douglas
- 1816-1820: Joshua Folsom
- 1820-1824: Joseph Olds
- 1824-1827: Caleb Atwater
- 1825-1826: Guy W. Doane
- 1827-1832: Joshua Folsom
- 1832-1838: John L. Green
- 1838-1840: Henry N. Hedges, Sr.
- 1840-1841: Joseph H. Geiger
- 1841-1843: M.C. Canfield
- 1843-1845: John C. Groom
- 1845-1847: James Green
- 1847-1851: Jonathan Renick
- 1852-1854: Julius Wyman
- 1854-1856: Henry N. Hedges, Sr.
- 1857-1860: Joseph Olds
- 1861-1863: Lewis Hamilton Bond
- 1864-1865: C.B. Mason
- 1865-1867: Joseph Olds
- 1868-1872: Samuel W. Courtright
- 1872-1876: Issac Abernethy
- 1876-1880: Charles J. Delaplane
- 1880-1885: Jacob P. Winstead
- 1886-1891: Clarence Curtain
- 1891-1896: John Schleyer
- 1897-1902: Irvin F. Snyder
- 1903-1908: Charles Gerhardt
- 1909-1912: C.A. Leist
- 1913-1916: Meeker Terwilliger
- 1917-1918: John L. Heise
- 1919-1922: C.A. Weldon
- 1923-1926: Meeker Terwilliger
- 1927-1928: E.A. Brown
- 1929-1932: Emmitt L. Crist
- 1933-1936: Ray Davis
- 1937-1944: George E. Gerhardt
- 1945-1948: Kenneth Robbins
- 1949-1952: Guy G. Cline
- 1953-1957: William Ammer
- 1958-1960: Ray Davis
- 1960-1968: Robert H. Huffer
- 1969-1972: Roy H. Huffer, Jr.
- 1973-1976: Richard L. Gerhardt
- 1977-1980: James R. Kingsley
- 1981-1984: Roger Kline
- 1985-1988: William H. Harsha
- 1989-1994: P. Randall Knece
- 1995-2006: P. Eugene Long
- 2006-2025: Judy C. Wolford
- 2025 - present: Jayme Hartley Fountain