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 1981 / Served to 1983

Blanche Ethel Krupansky

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Blanche Ethel Krupansky was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2008
Tenure: 1981–1983 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Krupansky authored 24 published opinions for the court (1981–1983), plus 23 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Blankenship v. Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. (394 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. 51 of these were attributed to Krupansky 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
1982	Blankenship v. Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc.· Dissent†	69 Ohio St. 2d 608	394
1982	Velotta v. Leo Petronzio Landscaping, Inc.†	69 Ohio St. 2d 376	206
1982	DeHart v. Aetna Life Insurance· Dissent†	69 Ohio St. 2d 189	198
1982	Haddon View Investment Co. v. Coopers· Dissent†	70 Ohio St. 2d 154	178
1982	State v. Mapson· Dissent†	1 Ohio St. 3d 217	159
1982	Normandy Place Associates v. Beyer· Dissent†	2 Ohio St. 3d 102	117
1982	Knitz v. Minster Machine Co.· Dissent†	69 Ohio St. 2d 460	102
1982	Simon v. Lake Geauga Printing Co.†	69 Ohio St. 2d 41	102
1982	Children's Hospital v. Ohio Department of Public Welfare†	69 Ohio St. 2d 523	77
1981	State ex rel. Butler v. Demis†	66 Ohio St. 2d 123	72
1982	Kunz v. Buckeye Union Ins.· Dissent†	1 Ohio St. 3d 79	67
1982	Matkovich v. Penn Central Transportation Co.· Concurrence†	69 Ohio St. 2d 210	67
1982	Chadwick v. Barba Lou, Inc.· Concurrence†	69 Ohio St. 2d 222	67
1982	State ex rel. Bosch v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence†	1 Ohio St. 3d 94	61
1983	State ex rel. Nyitray v. Industrial Commission· Dissent†	2 Ohio St. 3d 173	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 Blanche Ethel Krupansky on?: Blanche Ethel Krupansky was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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1 year 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).