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- The Supreme Court of Ohio is established by Article IV, Section 1, of the Ohio Constitution. Article IV, Section 2, of the Ohio Constitution sets the size of the Court at seven – a chief justice and six justices, who are elected to six-year terms. Two justices are chosen at the general election in even-numbered years.
www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/judicial-system/supreme-court-of-ohio/justices-overview/
Two justices are chosen at the general election in even-numbered years. In the year when the chief justice runs for election, voters pick three members of the Court. A person must be an attorney with at least six years' experience in the practice of law to be elected or appointed to the Court.
- Patrick Fischer
Justice Fischer began his first six-year term on the Supreme...
- Joseph Deters
Justice Joseph T. Deters is the 163rd justice of the Supreme...
- Sharon Kennedy
Sharon L. Kennedy was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme...
- Melody Stewart
Melody Stewart was elected in November 2018 to a full term...
- R. DeWine
Justice Pat DeWine was reelected to a second term on the...
- Michael Donnelly
Justice Michael P. Donnelly is the 160th justice of the...
- Jennifer Brunner
From 2014 through 2020, Justice Brunner served as an elected...
- Justices 1803 to Present
As a joint research project of the Supreme Court of Ohio and...
- Patrick Fischer
List of justices of the Ohio Supreme Court. Bold indicates chief judge or chief justice. The Ohio Supreme Court was created by the Ohio Constitution of 1802 with three judges, and had three or four through 1851. In 1851, the number of judges was increased to five.
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The table below shows votes cast in each Ohio Supreme Court election through 2014 and the average number of votes cast in these races by year. It also shows votes cast in other statewide elections held each year.
The section below contains data from financial reports submitted to state agencies. To view data for each race, click on the appropriate bar below to expand it. The data is gathered and made available by Transparency USA. 1. Chief Justice (click to expand) 1. Judge (click to expand)
The seven justices of the Ohio Supreme Court are selected through partisan primary and general elections to six-year terms on the court. In the event of a midterm vacancy, the governor appoints a replacement. The appointee serves until the next general election taking place 40 or more days after the vacancy occurred. If re-elected, the justice serv...
Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters
1. 1.1. See also: Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters, a study on how state supreme court justices decided the cases that came before them. Our goal was to determine which justices ruled together most often, which frequently dissented, and which courts featured the most unanimous or contentious decisions. The study tracked the position taken by each state supreme court justice in every case they decided i...
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship
1. 1.1. See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship Last updated: June 15, 2020 In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020. The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation, based on a variety of factors. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on the political or ideologi...
As of January 2023, there were four Republican and three Democratic judges on the court. The Ohio Supreme Court meets in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus. The court hears oral arguments on a biweekly basis from September to June.
State of Ohio Court Statistics. Statistics are collected monthly (or quarterly, for probate courts) from each judge and submitted to the Case Management Section of the Supreme Court of Ohio in accordance with Sup.R.37.
Justices. All the seats on the court are elected at large by the voters of Ohio. Every two years, two of the associate justice seats are up for election to a six-year term. For one of those three elections in a six-year cycle, the chief justice's seat is also up for election.
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Two justices are chosen at the general election in even-numbered years. In the year when the chief justice runs, voters pick three members of the Court. The chief justice and six justices are elected to six-year terms on a non-partisan ballot during the general election.
