Prosecutor’s employee delivers with speed

As we begin Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, this is a perfect article which illustrates how people with disabilities can shine at their job, just like you and me. This is about a woman who brings a smile to the job every day and gives 110%. Wouldn't you want to hire someone like this? Celebrate Developmental Disability Awareness Month.


HAMILTON — Elizabeth Crehan loves sports. Known as Liz or Lizzy to most, she excels in softball and is looking forward to playing shortstop this spring. But perhaps she should have considered track, because the 39-year-old laps everyone daily in her deliveries for the prosecutor’s office.
Crehan, a Hamilton High School graduate with development disabilities, has held the position for 18 years. She has no plans of making any changes.
“I like what I do,” Crehan said. “I would miss my friends too much."
Her father laughed and said, “they have to make her take a vacation.”
Despite her challenges, Crehan has a memory for numbers, which makes an often-painstaking job a breeze for her. She pulls scores of case files for the seven common pleas court dockets.
“She can pull 70 lickity split,” Holstein said. “It’s amazing how she remembers the cases by their case numbers.”