About Us

Elizabeth Krieder Wright

Elizabeth Krieder Wright is an attorney with Broehl Law Office in Wooster with over 20 years of experience.  She began her legal career with Critchfield, Critchfield and Johnston, Ltd. where she focused on employer representation and workers’ compensation claims and carried that concentration through additional attorney roles at Kokosing Construction and Krieder Wright Law Office.  Her current work centers on advising individuals, farming organizations, small business, and non profits regarding general legal matters including insurance claims, estate planning, business formation, human resource management, and regulatory compliance.

Elizabeth’s community involvement includes serving as co-chair of the 2016 Garden Tour, Treasurer for Friends & Neighbors of Every Woman’s House, and board member for the Wayne Center for the Arts and Wayne County Humane Society.

Elizabeth received her bachelor’s degree in English and German from Denison University and her juris Doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. 

Raymond E. Leisy

Kimberly A. Lang

Kimberly A. Lang is a partner at Taggart Law Firm, L.P.A. in Wooster. Much of her legal practice is dedicated to the area of guardianship law, and she has been involved as a guardian and as counsel for guardians and wards in the course of her twenty-three years of practice. She served on the board of the
Volunteer Guardianship Association of Holmes County for many years and continues to process the Association’s guardianship applications on a pro bono basis. Kim and her husband have four children, and she is involved in numerous activities with them, including the family farm, sports, band, and 4H.

Douglas R. Princehorn

Kelli Beckler

Kelli Beckler currently serves as the Executive Director at Danbury in Massillon.  She has worked in Long Term Care for over 30 years, most often as a social worker.  Kelli became a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator in 2019.  

Kelli lives in Wooster with her husband, and has two adult children and their partners, and one grandchild.  

Kelli is passionate about the WCVGA because throughout her years of work in the long term care field she has seen first hand the need for volunteer guardians and the important role they play.  She first became involved with the WCVGA as a volunteer guardian in 2012 and also developed and coordinated the Iron Chef Fundraiser which began that year, benefitting the WCVGA.  She later became a board member, and in 2024, became President of the board.  

Monica L. Miyashita, J.D., Attorney-At-Law 

 Monica is an attorney in private practice in Orrville, Ohio.  Monica began her career as a litigator with Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love, PLLC, a mulit-office law firm based in Charleston, West Virginia where she handled civil litigation and federal criminal defense cases.  She moved to Ohio and joined the law firm of Critchfield Critchfield & Johnston, Ltd. where she handled business formation and taxation, real estate, estate planning and administration, and worked on establishing nonprofit entities.  She then started the law firm of Miyashita & Thompson, LLC where she handled family law related matters and continued her work with small business, corporate formation, litigation and estate planning.  In 2016 she opened her own law office where she continues to handle similar legal matters as well as guardianships and guardian ad litem and court appointment work.

Monica taught at the University of Akron, Wayne College campus, for nearly 20 years, teaching Humanities, Chinese and Japanese history, and business law.  She is also a certified Hatha yoga teacher and teaches water classes and yoga at the Wayne County YMCA, Orrville branch.  

Monica is very active as a volunteer in the community serving on numerous boards including having served as president of Life Care Hospice, Ballet Wooster, and the Orrville Community Chorus. She is a past board member of Community Legal Aid, Orrville Historical Society, has served on the Orrville United Way Citizens Review Committee, and has twice served on the City of Orrville Charter Review Committee.  Most recently, she was president of the Orrville High School Band Parents Association.  Monica also plays viola, piano, and sings with Cantate Singers and is an active member of both St Agnes Catholic Church in Orrville and St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Wooster.  

Monica is a graduate of Hiram College with a bachelor’s degree in history and philosophy, graduating magna cum laude and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor’s Society.  She graduated with her juris doctorate in 1998 cum laude from West Virginia University College of Law where she was awarded the Community Service Award for her work with the Appalachian Center for Law and Public Service and her work as a volunteer law clerk for the Hon. Robert B. Stone.