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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1942 / Served to 1947

Edward Steele Bell

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Edward Steele Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1965
Tenure: 1942–1947 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Northern Kentucky University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bell authored 65 published opinions for the court (1943–1947), plus 23 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Belden v. Union Central Life Ins. (165 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. 4 of these were attributed to Bell 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
1944	Belden v. Union Central Life Ins.	55 N.E.2d 629	165
1944	Agricultural Ins. v. Constantine	58 N.E.2d 658	164
1946	Bush v. Harvey Transfer Co.· Concurrence	67 N.E.2d 851	108
1946	In Matter of Lands	67 N.E.2d 433	102
1945	Home Indemnity Co. v. Village of Plymouth· Concurrence	64 N.E.2d 248	97
1943	City of Cincinnati v. Correll	49 N.E.2d 412	81
1944	Bishop v. East Ohio Gas Co.	56 N.E.2d 164	71
1946	Metzger v. Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Rd.	66 N.E.2d 203	65
1944	Fink v. New York Central Rd.	56 N.E.2d 456	63
1946	Castleberry v. Evatt· Dissent	67 N.E.2d 861	56
1945	Clendenning v. McCall· Dissent	60 N.E.2d 676	56
1943	State Ex Rel. Curran v. Brookes	50 N.E.2d 995	52
1946	State Ex Rel. Stanley v. Cook· Dissent	66 N.E.2d 207	50
1943	In Re Martin, Jr.	47 N.E.2d 388	50
1943	Hetrick v. Marion-Reserve Power Co.	48 N.E.2d 103	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 91 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 Edward Steele Bell on?: Edward Steele Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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4 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).