Charles M. Rowland II, DaytonDUI.com
Charles M. Rowland II maintains an established DUI/OVI practice, representing the accused drunk driver in State and Federal Courts in the Miami Valley and throughout Ohio. An attorney since 1995, Charles Rowland dedicates his practice exclusively to representing the accused drunk driver and has worked to amass more credentials than any attorney in his field.
DUI/OVI CREDENTIALS
Charles is a proud member of the National College for DUI defense, the Ohio Ambassador to the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys and is a Founding Member of the DUI DefenseLawyers Association. He is a Life Member to both the Ohio State Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. Charles served as the Xenia City Prosecutor where he tried DUI cases and has served as a Greene County “Special Prosecutor” on high-profile felony cases
National Patent Analytical Systems has certified Charles Rowland in the operation, diagnostic verification and calibration of the BAC DataMaster Breath Alcohol Testing Instrument. Charles has been qualified by the United States government as an expert witness on evidential breath testing and has testified in court martial proceedings. In 2007, Charles Rowland was the first private attorney in the State of Ohio certificated on the Intoxilyzer 8000 breath testing machine. In 2009 and 2012, Charles Rowland attended the National College for DUI Defense Annual Scientific Evidence Seminar where he received training on the Intoxilyzer 5000 and further training on the Intoxilyzer 8000.
In 2008, Charles M. Rowland II was the first attorney in Ohio to earn a certificate in Forensic Sobriety Assessment. FSA certification requires proficiency in the scientific principles and research relating to sobriety testing in a DUI/OVI stop. It subsumes the NHTSA training (knowledge of the NHTSA manual is required) and greatly extends it. Charles Rowland is currently the only of very few attorneys in the country to hold FSA certification. In 2010, Charles M. Rowland II attended the most current NHTSA training wherein he was trained to administer and evaluate the standardized field sobriety tests. This is the same NHTSA/SFST training course that law enforcement officers are trained in nationwide and testify to in court. In 2017, he was trained as an INSTRUCTOR in the NHTSA standardized field sobriety testing allowing him to “grade” the officer’s performance.
Charles is a frequent speaker and a prolific writer on all matters related to DUI defense. The DaytonDUI Blog was chosen for inclusion in the prestigious ABA Journal of Legal Blogs. In 2011, Charles spoke to the Dayton Bar Association on evidential breath testing and in 2012 Charles was honored to be one of only two DUI defense attorneys chosen to speak to Ohio’s prosecuting attorneys at the Ohio Municipal Law Institute. He continues to provide help to the Greene County Career Center Police Academy by conducting cross-examination/courtroom training for new officers as part of their ADAP/NHTSA training. He has been chosen as AVVO’s “Client’s Choice” for DUI defense (2012) and as a Dayton SuperLawyer (2013-present). Charles was featured as a “Top DUI Attorney” in both Time Magazine (August 12, 2013) and Car & Driver Magazine (May 2013). In 2014, Charles Rowland was certified in the Drug Recognition Expert protocol, a tool that will help him defend drugged driving cases.
CREDENTIALS BEYOND THE COURTROOM
In addition to awards and certificates, Charles M. Rowland II has a wealth of real-life experience. He was the 2004 Ohio State Bar Foundation recipient of the Community Service Award for Attorneys under 40 years old. In 2005, Charles Rowland was given the singular honor of being named a Fellow of the Ohio State Bar Foundation. In 2006, Charles Rowland presented a seminar on standardized field sobriety testing before the Greene County Bar Association. Twice-elected to the Beavercreek City School Board, Charles M. Rowland was a co-recipient of the 2006 Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce Public Education Award. Charles also served as President of the Board of Directors of TCN-BHS, Greene County’s Drug and Alcohol provider from 2003-2005. In 2008, he contributed to a revision to Anderson’s Ohio Civil Practice along with the judges of the Greene County Common Pleas Court. He has also been a Wright State University Visiting Professor of Political Science for the University Honors Department. Charles Rowland has appeared on television, radio and in newspapers, authoring DUI-related articles for the popular “Ask an Attorney” section of the Xenia Daily Gazette, the Beavercreek News Current and the Fairborn Daily Herald. He makes regular appearances on “The Brews Brothers” on WHIO radio. Charles Rowland is a proud member of the Clark County, Dayton and Ohio State Bar Association and has served as the President of the Greene County Bar Association from 2008-2009. In 2012, Charles received the honor of being named a Fellow to the American Bar Foundation. Charles volunteered on the Board of Directors of TCN-BHS and advocating for quality education and Greene C.A.T.S, Greene County’s Public Transit Provider.
EDUCATION
Charles Rowland is a 1988 graduate of Beavercreek High School and a life-long resident of Beavercreek, Ohio. He graduated magna cum laude from Wright State University in 1992, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a minor in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology. Charles earned the degree of University Honors Scholar with Honors from the Political Science Department, received the Academic Letter Award for earning Outstanding Attorney Awards in the WSU Mock Trial Programs, was awarded Phi Kappa Phi distinction and was selected to represent Wright State University as a Student Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.
Charles M. Rowland II was awarded the H. E. Ashcroft Memorial Scholarship to attend Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law. While in law school, Charles studied International Law and European Economic Community Law at the University College London, Bentham Faculty of Laws. As an L-2, Charles was a finalist at the National Tax Moot Court Competition in Houston, Texas. For his efforts he was chosen to serve as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Northern Moot Court Program. Charles Rowland was named to the prestigious Order of the Barristers for excellence in appellate advocacy. He graduated in the top 25% of his class in 1995 and returned to the Miami Valley to begin his practice. He is a co-owner of a larger-than-life “Lady Justice Beaver” which stands in the foyer of the Beavercreek Police Department.
The Law Office of Charles M. Rowland II is located at Exit 20, one exit north of the Fairfield Commons Mall on I-675 within ten minutes of the Beavercreek home he grew up in (and the home where his parents still reside), his college (Wright State), his first home, and the home in which he is raising his three amazing kids and his dog Dewey.
