Mick Bates is an experienced attorney and labor relations consultant, currently working for the Ohio Education Association since April 2011. In addition to practicing law at M Charles Bates, Mick Bates holds a Juris Doctor degree from Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, obtained between 1985 and 1989. Further academic accomplishments include a Master's degree in Educational Leadership and Administration from Kent State University, pursued from 1982 to 1983, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Baldwin Wallace University, earned from 1975 to 1979.