How do judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1989 / Served to 2007

Alice Robie Resnick

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Alice Robie Resnick was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1989. She previously served on the Ohio Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1989–2007 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–
1989	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Siena Heights University
Siena Heights University
University of Detroit Mercy

Judicial Record

In our data, Resnick authored 569 published opinions for the court (1983–2006), plus 208 dissents and 98 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Jenks (11,342 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 576 of these were attributed to Resnick by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1991	State v. Jenks†	61 Ohio St. 3d 259	11,342
1992	State v. Xie†	62 Ohio St. 3d 521	1,682
1992	Murphy v. City of Reynoldsburg†	65 Ohio St. 3d 356	1,496
2003	Westfield Insurance v. Galatis· Dissent†	100 Ohio St. 3d 216	1,062
1995	State v. Phillips†	74 Ohio St. 3d 72	846
1997	State v. Dennis†	79 Ohio St. 3d 421	833
1996	In re William S.†	75 Ohio St. 3d 95	811
2001	State v. Murphy†	91 Ohio St. 3d 516	807
1992	State v. Waddy†	63 Ohio St. 3d 424	801
1996	State v. Engle· Concurrence†	74 Ohio St. 3d 525	784
1989	Mussivand v. David†	45 Ohio St. 3d 314	766
1989	General Accident Insurance v. Insurance Co. of North America†	44 Ohio St. 3d 17	758
1990	State v. Jamison†	49 Ohio St. 3d 182	711
2006	State v. Conway†	109 Ohio St. 3d 412	704
1991	State ex rel. Noll v. Industrial Commission†	57 Ohio St. 3d 203	671

Showing the 15 most-cited of 875 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Alice Robie Resnick on?: Alice Robie Resnick was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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17 years on the Supreme Court of Ohio. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).