Lakshmi is from a village in India and moved to Cincinnati at 6 years old. She earned her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. Lakshmi is married and has 2 children. 

Lakshmi has worked as a small business owner. 

Lakshmi Sammarco currently serves as Hamilton County Coroner. She was first appointed in 2012 and is in her 3rd term. 

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Believes in enhancing safety and reducing crime by sharing resources between agencies.

Believes in uniting law enforcement and protecting crime lab from politics.

Wants to protect the coroner's office from politics.

Believes in strong collaboration between police, law enforcement, county commissioners, and the public to enhance community safety.

Believes in strong collaboration between law enforcement, county commissioners, and the public to enhance community safety.

As coroner, improved facilities, technology, and reputation of the coroner’s office, and increased the number and responsibilities of women serving as physicians and scientists in its crime lab.

Plans to continue educating children on the dangers of drugs and bullying.

Plans to continue efforts to improve the Coroner’s Office.

Promises to build on her efforts to improve the Coroner’s Office.

Supports the construction of a new crime lab facility to better serve the region.

Believes in adding new crime lab facilities as needed to serve the region.

- Believes in enhancing safety and reducing crime by sharing resources between agencies.
- Wants to protect the coroner's office from politics.
- Believes in strong collaboration between law enforcement, county commissioners, and the public to enhance community safety.
- As coroner, improved facilities, technology, and reputation of the coroner’s office, and increased the number and responsibilities of women serving as physicians and scientists in its crime lab.
- Plans to continue educating children on the dangers of drugs and bullying.
- Promises to build on her efforts to improve the Coroner’s Office.
- Believes in adding new crime lab facilities as needed to serve the region.

Public Safety

Believes poverty, neglect, and abuse harm community integrity and contribute to family destruction.

Supports drug-abuse and child-abuse prevention initiatives.

- Believes poverty, neglect, and abuse harm community integrity and contribute to family destruction.
- Supports drug-abuse and child-abuse prevention initiatives.

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Lakshmi Kode Sammarco

Lakshmi Sammarco currently serves as Hamilton County Coroner. She was first appointed in 2012 and elected ever since. Lakshmi is in her 3rd term. 

As director of the crime lab, expanded services to other counties, increasing profits and productivity.

Believes in investigating all suspected child deaths and addressing the "epidemic of childhood deaths" and the heroin epidemic.

Believes the coroner's office plays a crucial role in public safety by investigating criminal, violent, suspicious deaths, and suicides.

Aims to establish a criminal science and investigation center to enhance local and national standards.

Plans to introduce "Virtual Autopsy" technologies to increase revenue for the Coroner’s Office by encouraging outside agencies to use its services.

Believes in conducting detailed criminal investigations and collaborating with medical institutions to improve crime lab techniques and enhance public safety.

As a candidate, strengthened relationships with local and regional courts, prosecutors, sheriffs, police departments, the FBI, hospitals, and others.

As coroner, received close to $1 million for crime lab services from other agencies.

Supports public health initiatives and has been recognized for contributions to career development in women.

Believes cocaine-fentanyl mixtures are causing increasing overdose deaths in Cincinnati's Black community.

Supports the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) recognizing women at the top of their fields.

Supports addressing public health issues such as the opioid epidemic.

Believes addressing public health issues, such as the rise in overdose deaths, is crucial for community safety and well-being.

Supports harm reduction strategies, such as needle exchange programs and safe consumption sites, to address the heroin epidemic.

Lakshmi Kode Sammarco came from a small Indian village and moved to Cincinnati at six years old. She attended the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine.

Lakshmi Kode Sammarco is the Coroner of Hamilton County and the owner/president of NeuroRadPro, LLC, specializing in Neuroradiology and Diagnostic Radiology. She has served as Medical Director for Cura Radiology and held faculty positions at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, UCLA Medical Center, and the University of Maryland Medical School.

Lakshmi Kode Sammarco has held the office of Hamilton County Coroner since her appointment in 2012 and subsequent election.

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for conducting an unbiased investigation on the cause, manner, and circumstance of death.  
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, for photographing and documenting the place of death, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- They are also responsible for collecting evidence at the location of death. This includes physical evidence and interviews from witnesses. 
- Coroners are responsible for removing the body from the place of death, and informing their family of their death in a timely manner. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 