2008 Summit County, Ohio Executive election

The 2008 Summit County, Ohio Executive election took place on November 4, 2008. County Executive James McCarthy, who won the 2004 election, resigned from office in 2007, and Russ Pry, the chairman of the county Democratic Party, was selected to replace him. Pry served out the remainder of McCarthy's term and ran for a full term in the 2008 election.

Pry was challenged in the Democratic primary by former Akron City Councilman Joe Finley, who had recently lost the 2007 election for Mayor of Akron, and campaigned on a reform platform. Pry won renomination with 59 percent of the vote, and advanced to the general election, where he faced Republican nominee Jim Laria, the Akron Municipal Court Clerk. He won re-election in a landslide, receiving 61 percent of the vote to Laria's 39 percent.