She specializes in the investigation and prosecution of public corruption, organized crime and white collar crime cases. She supervised the Cuyahoga County Public Corruption investigation, and was part of the trial team for the prosecution of former County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora. To date, that investigation has resulted in charges against 62 public officials and business people. Her other notable prosecutions include Anthony Liberatore, then the ranking member of La Cosa Nostra in Cleveland, Fred Mosely, an East Cleveland Municipal Judge, Robert McCloskey, a Toledo City Councilman, Paul H. Jones, the Mayor of Ravenna, sportscaster Bruce Drennan, several cases involving bribery in the Cleveland Water Department, and a series of public corruption cases in Summit and Trumbull Counties.

Ann serves as Chief of the Major Fraud and Corruption Unit, and previously supervised the Organized Crime and Public Corruption Unit, the Economic Crime Unit and the Health Care Fraud Task Force. She is a member of the Sixth Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction Committee and has served as an adjunct professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, and as an instructor at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute. Ann Rowland received her J.D. and her B.A. from Case Western Reserve University.