Mark Philip Painter (born April 6, 1947), served from 1995–2009 as a judge of the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County (Cincinnati), after 13 years on the Hamilton County Municipal Court. In March 2009, Painter became the first American to be elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the United Nations Appeals Tribunal. In 2012, Painter resigned from the Appeals Tribunal and joined the Cincinnati law firm Manley Burke as Of counsel.