A fourth-generation Ohioan, Mike Dovilla is a U.S. Navy veteran and small business owner. He was elected State Representative in 2010 after knocking on 15,927 doors and is currently serving his first term representing the residents of the 18th Ohio House District, which includes Berea, North Royalton, Olmsted Falls, Olmsted Township and Strongsville.
The great-grandson of Italian, Irish and German immigrants, Mike was raised in Berea, where he learned at a young age the importance of hard work and service to others. Mike’s entire career has been marked by service – to our community, state and nation. He has served as a Presidential appointee at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, a senior advisor to former U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich and a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. Today, in addition to his work in the Ohio General Assembly, Mike manages The Dovilla Group, a strategic consulting firm.
Mike is an officer in the Reserve Component of the U.S. Navy. A lieutenant commander (select) with over nine years of commissioned service, he served on active duty on a 12-month deployment in Iraq in 2007-2008. As Deputy Officer-in-Charge, he led a 25-person, Baghdad-based intelligence headquarters for Combined Joint Task Force Troy, the counter-improvised explosive device brigade in Iraq. Mike’s past reserve assignments have been with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Chief of Naval Operations, and United States Forces, Japan. He currently serves as a department head with an ONI unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. A qualified Information Dominance Warfare Officer, his awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal and various unit and campaign awards.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science from Baldwin-Wallace College and a Master of Public Administration in international management from The American University in Washington, D.C.
An engaged member of our community, Mike serves as an at-large member of the Baldwin-Wallace College Alumni Council and a national officer of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. In 2009, he was named an American Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Mike is a lay reader at his church, a volunteer with University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and a member of the Kiwanis Club of Berea, The City Club of Cleveland, American Legion Post 91 (Berea) and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3345 (Strongsville). He resides in his hometown of Berea.