According to the opinion issued Wednesday, both cases involved ethical violations regarding signatures on documents.
In the Warren County case, Vardiman, who was also suspended briefly in 2007, signed — without her authority — the name of the wife of a man he was representing in a child support case to documents filed in the action.
The charges were brought against him by the Warren County Bar Association in 2014.
The justices voted 4-3 on the punishment, with three writing that they would not have stayed any of the suspension.
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