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 1985 / Served to 2002

Andrew Douglas

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Andrew Douglas was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1985–2002 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Douglas authored 523 published opinions for the court (1985–2002), plus 253 dissents and 308 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Thompkins (16,183 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. 912 of these were attributed to Douglas 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
1997	State v. Thompkins†	78 Ohio St. 3d 380	16,183
1996	Dresher v. Burt†	75 Ohio St. 3d 280	7,689
1989	State v. Bradley†	42 Ohio St. 3d 136	7,124
1996	Village of Grafton v. Ohio Edison Co.· Dissent†	77 Ohio St. 3d 102	3,715
1997	State v. Thompkins	1997 Ohio 52	3,391
1988	Mitseff v. Wheeler†	38 Ohio St. 3d 112	1,514
1997	Vahila v. Hall†	77 Ohio St. 3d 421	1,495
1995	Grava v. Parkman Township· Dissent†	73 Ohio St. 3d 379	1,323
1988	Miller v. Miller· Concurrence†	37 Ohio St. 3d 71	1,173
1990	In re Murray· Concurrence†	52 Ohio St. 3d 155	1,148
1996	Dresher v. Burt	1996 Ohio 107	1,035
1991	In re Jane Doe 1· Dissent†	57 Ohio St. 3d 135	969
1988	Rose Chevrolet, Inc. v. Adams†	36 Ohio St. 3d 17	956
1988	Mitchell v. Lawson Milk Co.· Concurrence†	40 Ohio St. 3d 190	945
1995	Horton v. Harwick Chemical Corp.· Concurrence†	73 Ohio St. 3d 679	900

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,084 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 Andrew Douglas on?: Andrew Douglas 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).