Charles M. Rowland II is the managing partner of Brown, Rowland & Kelly, an established litigation practice handling state and federal cases in the Miami Valley and throughout Ohio. Since 2003, Charles Rowland has dedicated his practice to representing the accused drunk driver.  National Patent Analytical Systems has certified Charles Rowland in the operation, diagnostic verification and calibration of the BAC DataMaster Breath Alcohol Testing Instrument, the most commonly used breath testing instrument in Ohio for DUI / OVI arrests.  In February 2007, he was certified on the Intoxilyzer 8000, making him one of a select number of attorneys in the state of Ohio to hold certification on both the new DataMaster and the Intoxilyzer 8000.  He is a proud member of the National College for DUI defense and in 2006 attended the intensive seminar on DUI law at Harvard University.  In October, 2006, Charles Rowland conducted a seminar on standardized field sobriety testing before the Greene County Bar Association.  Charles Rowland was the first attorney in the State of Ohio to pass the examination and be certifed by Forensic Sobriety Assessment in the advanced analysis of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests. 

Charles Rowland has been a trial lawyer in Greene County since the inception of his practice. He 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 in Political Science, received an Academic Letter Award, was awarded Phi Kappa Phi honors and was selected to represent Wright State University as a Student Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.

He was awarded the H. E. Ashcroft Memorial Scholarship to attend Ohio Northern University's Pettit College of Law. While in law school, Charles studied as a visiting scholar at the University College London, Bentham Faculty of Laws and served as an Associate Justice on the Ohio Northern University Moot Court Program. He received his law degree in 1995, graduating in the top 25% of his class and was named to the prestigious Order of the Barristers for excellence in appellate advocacy. Following law school, he returned to the Miami Valley to practice in his home town.

Along with the Honorable Steven Wolaver and the Honorable Timothy Campbell, Charles Rowland authored a revision to Anderson's Civil Law in 2007.  Charles Rowland has appeared as an expert on television, radio and in newspapers, authoring articles for the popular “Ask an Attorney” section of the Xenia Daily Gazette, the Beavercreek News Current and the Fairborn Daily Herald.  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. Charles Rowland maintains memberships in the Ohio State Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Foundation, the Green County Bar Association, the DaytonBar Association, the National College for DUI Defense, the National Motorists Association, the Ohio Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, and is an associate attorney with the Cochran Firm, Criminal Defense Section, the National Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and DUI Defenders, a national network of DUI defense lawyers. Mr. Rowland currently serves as President for the Greene County Bar Association.

In November 2005, Charles was re-elected to serve a four-year term on the Beavercreek Board of Education. He is co-founder and past-president of the Beavercreek High School Alumni Association, Treasurer of the Wright State Honors Advisory Council, advisor to the Board of Directors of the Beavercreek Wetlands Association, and has served on the St. Luke Parish Council where volunteered as a School of religion teacher. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Community Network (TCN-BHS), Greene County's Mental Health provider and on the Legislative Committee of the Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce.

Charles M. Rowland II has been a trial attorney since beginning his practice in 1995. He has served as a Special Prosecutor for Greene County, the Xenia City Prosecutor, as counsel for the Greene County Public Defender's Office and has helped indigent clients in consumer related cases with Southeastern Ohio Legal Aid Services. He represents traffic clients throughout Ohio on behalf of Interstate Trucker Ltd. and the National Motorists Association. Charles Rowland's practice areas include all phases of criminal defense, DUI/OVI law, traffic law, consumer law, personal injury/accident law, juvenile law and appellate practice.