Judge Kathleen O'Malley, 58, had served on the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court for more than 13 years.

Judge Kathleen O'Malley, 58, had served on the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court for more than 13 years.

As a committed proponent of mediation, Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court Judge Kathleen O’Malley encouraged families to work together to settle disputes since January 1, 1999 when she joined the court. Judge O’Malley, 58, died over the weekend.

A graduate of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Judge O’Malley was admitted to the practice of law in 1989. Before her election to the bench in 1998 she served as a Domestic Relations Court magistrate assigned to hear out-of-state child support cases under Ohio’s version of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.

Re-elected twice more in 2004 and 2010, Judge O’Malley was in the second year of her third six-year term on the bench.

O’Malley is survived by her husband Ray Gallucci, mother Colleen, and three brothers and three sisters.

Visiting hours will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday at the McGorray-Hanna Funeral Home at 25620 Center Ridge Road in Westlake, while funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Saint Angela Merici at 20970 Lorain Road in Fairview Park.