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. In 1892, the number of judges was increased to six. In 1912, the office of chief justice was created and the total number of judges was increased to seven (including the chief justice). In 1968, all the supreme court judges were re-titled as justice.

See also:

Chief justices

Chief judges (1803–1845)

Name Party Term
Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. Democratic-Republican 1803–1804
Samuel Huntington Democratic-Republican 1804–1808
William Sprigg Democratic-Republican 1808–1810
Thomas Scott Democratic-Republican 1810–1815
Ethan A. Brown Democratic-Republican 1815–1819
Jessup Nash Couch Democratic-Republican 1819–1821
Calvin Pease Democratic-Republican 1821–1829
Peter Hitchcock   1829–1833
Joshua Collett   1833–1835
Ebenezer Lane   1835–1845

Chief justices (since 1913)

Name Party Term
Hugh L. Nichols Democratic 1913–1920
Carrington T. Marshall Republican 1921–1932
Carl V. Weygandt Democratic 1933–1962
Kingsley A. Taft Republican 1963–1970
C. William O'Neill Republican 1970–1978
Robert E. Leach Republican 1978
Frank D. Celebrezze Sr. Democratic 1978–1986
Thomas J. Moyer Republican 1987–2010
Eric Brown Democratic 2010
Maureen O'Connor Republican 2011–2022
Sharon L. Kennedy Republican 2023–

List of justices

  denotes incumbent

NameBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Political affiliationAppointed by
Return J. Meigs Jr.18031804Democratic-
Republican
Ohio General Assembly
William Sprigg18031806Democratic-
Republican
Ohio General Assembly
Samuel Huntington18031808Democratic-
Republican
Ohio General Assembly
Daniel Symmes18051808Democratic-
Republican
Elected
George Tod18061810Democratic-
Republican
Edward Tiffin
Thomas Scott18091815Democratic-
Republican
Elected
Thomas Morris18091810Democratic-
Republican
Ohio House
William W. Irvin18101816JacksonianOhio General Assembly
Ethan Allen Brown18101818Democratic-
Republican
Ohio General Assembly
Jessup Nash Couch18151821Democratic-
Republican
Thomas Worthington
John McLean18161822JacksonianOhio General Assembly
Calvin Pease18161830Democratic-
Republican
Ohio General Assembly
Peter Hitchcock1819
1835
1845
1833
1842
1852
Democratic-
Republican
Ohio General Assembly
Jacob Burnet18211828National Republican PartyEthan Allen Brown
Charles Robert Sherman18231829National Republican PartyOhio General Assembly
Joshua Collett18291836National Republican PartyOhio General Assembly
Elijah Hayward18301830DemocraticOhio General Assembly
John M. Goodenow18301830Jacksonian
Henry Brush18301830Democratic-
Republican
Allen Trimble
Gustavus Swan18301830National Republican PartyAllen Trimble
Ebenezer Lane18301845National Republican PartyOhio General Assembly
John C. Wright18311835Democratic-
Republican
Ohio General Assembly
Reuben Wood18331847Democratic
Frederick Grimke18361842DemocraticOhio General Assembly
Matthew Birchard18421849DemocraticOhio General Assembly
Nathaniel C. Reed18421849DemocraticOhio General Assembly
Edward Avery18471851WhigOhio General Assembly
Rufus P. Spalding18491852DemocraticOhio General Assembly
William B. Caldwell18491854DemocraticOhio General Assembly
Rufus P. Ranney1851
1863
1857
1865
DemocraticOhio General Assembly
Thomas W. Bartley18521859DemocraticElected
John A. Corwin18521854DemocraticElected
Allen G. Thurman18521856DemocraticElected
Robert B. Warden18541855DemocraticWilliam Medill
William Kennon Sr.18541856DemocraticWilliam Medill
Joseph Rockwell Swan18551859RepublicanElected
Charles Cleveland Convers18561856RepublicanElected
Jacob Brinkerhoff18561871RepublicanElected
Ozias Bowen18561858RepublicanSalmon P. Chase
Josiah Scott18561872RepublicanSalmon P. Chase
Milton Sutliff18581863RepublicanElected
William Virgil Peck18591864RepublicanElected
William Y. Gholson18591863RepublicanElected
Horace Wilder18631865RepublicanDavid Tod
Hocking H. Hunter18641864RepublicanElected
William White18641883RepublicanJohn Brough
Luther Day18651875RepublicanElected
John Welch18651878RepublicanJohn Brough
George W. McIlvaine18711886RepublicanElected
William H. West18721873RepublicanElected
Walter F. Stone18731874RepublicanEdward Follansbee Noyes
George Rex18741877DemocraticWilliam Allen
William J. Gilmore18751880DemocraticElected
Washington W. Boynton18771881RepublicanElected
John W. Okey18781885DemocraticElected
William Wartenbee Johnson18801886RepublicanElected
Nicholas Longworth II18811883RepublicanElected
William H. Upson18831883RepublicanCharles Foster
John H. Doyle18831883RepublicanCharles Foster
Martin Dewey Follett18831887DemocraticElected
Selwyn N. Owen18831889DemocraticElected
Gibson Atherton18851885DemocraticGeorge Hoadly
William T. Spear18851912RepublicanElected
Thaddeus A. Minshall18861902RepublicanElected
Franklin J. Dickman18861895RepublicanJoseph B. Foraker
Marshall Jay Williams18871902RepublicanElected
Joseph Perry Bradbury18891902RepublicanElected
Jacob F. Burket18831904RepublicanElected
John Allen Shauck18951914RepublicanElected
William Z. Davis19001912RepublicanElected
James Latimer Price19021912RepublicanElected
William B. Crew19021911RepublicanGeorge K. Nash
Augustus N. Summers19041911RepublicanElected
James G. Johnson19111922DemocraticElected
Maurice H. Donahue19111919DemocraticElected
Joseph W. O'Hara19121912DemocraticJudson Harmon
J. Foster Wilkin19121914DemocraticElected
R. M. Wanamaker19131924Progressive PartyElected
Oscar W. Newman19131919DemocraticElected
Hugh L. Nichols19131920DemocraticJames M. Cox
Thomas A. Jones19151937RepublicanElected
Edward S. Matthias19151953RepublicanElected
James E. Robinson19191932RepublicanElected
Stanley W. Merrell19191920DemocraticJames M. Cox
Coleman W. Avery19201920DemocraticJames M. Cox
Benson W. Hough19201922RepublicanElected
Carrington T. Marshall19211932RepublicanElected
George H. Clark19221922RepublicanHarry L. Davis
Robert H. Day19231933RepublicanElected
Florence E. Allen19231934DemocraticElected
Harry L. Conn19241924DemocraticVic Donahey
Reynolds R. Kinkade19251933RepublicanElected
Will P. Stephenson19321936DemocraticGeorge White
Carl V. Weygandt19331962DemocraticElected
Howard Landis Bevis19331934DemocraticGeorge White
Charles B. Zimmerman1933
1935
1934
1969
DemocraticGeorge White (first term)
Robert Nugen Wilkin19341934DemocraticGeorge White
William L. Hart1934
1934
1934
1957
Republican
W. F. Garver19341934DemocraticElected
Roy Hughes Williams19341946RepublicanElected
Arthur H. Day19351940RepublicanElected
George S. Myers19371940DemocraticElected
Robert N. Gorman19371938DemocraticMartin L. Davey
William C. Dixon19381939DemocraticElected
Edward C. Turner19401950RepublicanJohn W. Bricker
Gilbert Bettman19411942RepublicanElected
Charles S. Bell19421947RepublicanElected
Robert M. Sohngen19471948DemocraticFrank Lausche
James Garfield Stewart19471959RepublicanThomas J. Herbert
Kingsley A. Taft19491962RepublicanElected
Howard E. Faught19501950DemocraticFrank Lausche
Henry A. Middleton19501954RepublicanElected
John H. Lamneck19531954DemocraticFrank Lausche
John M. Matthias19541970RepublicanElected
James F. Bell19551962DemocraticElected
Thomas J. Herbert19571963RepublicanElected
John Weld Peck II19591960DemocraticMichael DiSalle
C. William O'Neill19601978RepublicanElected
Lynn B. Griffith19621964DemocraticMichael DiSalle
Rankin Gibson19631964DemocraticMichael DiSalle
Paul M. Herbert19631968RepublicanElected
Louis J. Schneider Jr.19641972RepublicanElected
Paul W. Brown1964
1973
1968
1981
RepublicanJim Rhodes (first term)
Robert Morton Duncan19691971RepublicanJim Rhodes
Thomas M. Herbert19691980RepublicanElected
J. J. P. Corrigan19691976RepublicanJim Rhodes
Leonard J. Stern19701977RepublicanJim Rhodes
Robert E. Leach19701978RepublicanJim Rhodes
Lloyd O. Brown19711973DemocraticJohn J. Gilligan
Frank Celebrezze19721978DemocraticElected
William B. Brown19731984DemocraticElected
A. William Sweeney19771994DemocraticElected
Ralph S. Locher19771989DemocraticElected
Robert E. Holmes19781982RepublicanJim Rhodes
David Dudley Dowd Jr.19801981RepublicanJim Rhodes
Clifford F. Brown19811987DemocraticElected
Blanche Krupansky19811983RepublicanJim Rhodes
James Celebrezze19831985DemocraticElected
Andy Douglas19852002RepublicanElected
J. Craig Wright19851996RepublicanElected
Thomas J. Moyer19872010RepublicanElected
Herbert R. Brown19871993DemocraticElected
Alice Robie Resnick19892007DemocraticElected
Francis E. Sweeney19932004DemocraticElected
Paul Pfeifer19932017RepublicanElected
Deborah L. Cook19952003RepublicanElected
Evelyn Lundberg Stratton19962012RepublicanGeorge Voinovich
Maureen O'Connor20032022RepublicanElected
Terrence O'Donnell20032018RepublicanBob Taft
Judith Ann Lanzinger20052016RepublicanElected
Robert R. Cupp20072013RepublicanElected
Eric Brown20102010DemocraticTed Strickland
Yvette McGee Brown20112012DemocraticTed Strickland
Sharon L. Kennedy2012presentRepublicanElected
Judith L. French20132021RepublicanJohn Kasich
William O'Neill20132018DemocraticElected
Patrick F. Fischer2017presentRepublicanElected
Pat DeWine2017presentRepublicanElected
Mary DeGenaro20182019RepublicanJohn Kasich
Michael P. Donnelly2019presentDemocraticElected
Melody J. Stewart2019presentDemocraticElected
Jennifer Brunner2021presentDemocraticElected
Joe Deters2023presentRepublicanMike DeWine

Supreme Court Commission

In 1875, the Constitution of Ohio was amended to provide for the Supreme Court Commission.[1] The amendment reads in part: "A commission, which shall consist of five members, shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the members of which shall hold office for the term of three years from and after the first day of February, 1876, to dispose of such part of the business then on the dockets of the Supreme Court, as shall, by arrangement between said commission and said court, be transferred to such commission; and said commission shall have like jurisdiction and power in respect to such business as are or may be vested in said court; and the members of said commission shall receive a like compensation for the time being, with the judges of said court."[2]

Commission of 1876

On February 2, 1876, Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes appointed the following six members:[3][4]

Harrison refused the appointment, and Thomas Q. Ashburn of Clermont County was seated March 16, 1878. The commission sat until February 2, 1879, and "assisted in bringing up the docket which had fallen behind the reasonable time for trial."[4]

Commission of 1883

Governor Charles Foster appointed another commission of four men, which served from April 17, 1883 to April 16, 1885.[3][4]

References

  1. See Article IV, section 21 at "Constitution of the State of Ohio" (PDF). Ohio Secretary of State Jon A. Husted. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  2. Amendment called for five members. In 1876, six members were named. In 1883, four were named. Also, amendment called for "...a like commission with like powers, jurisdiction and duties; provided, that the term of any such commission shall not exceed two years, nor shall it be created oftener than once in ten years", though 1883 was not ten years from 1876. Apparently, the amendment is still in force.
  3. 1 2 "Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio 1787 – Present". Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
  4. 1 2 3 Gilkey, p. 478.

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