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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1996 / Served to 2012

Evelyn Lundberg Stratton

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Evelyn Lundberg Stratton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: 1996–2012 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stratton authored 350 published opinions for the court (1996–2012), plus 366 dissents and 168 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Barnes (2,256 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. 728 of these were attributed to Stratton 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
2002	State v. Barnes· Concurrence†	94 Ohio St. 3d 21	2,256
1997	State v. Smith†	80 Ohio St. 3d 89	2,042
1998	State v. Cook†	83 Ohio St. 3d 404	1,648
1997	Davis v. Flickinger†	77 Ohio St. 3d 415	1,567
1999	State v. Calhoun†	86 Ohio St. 3d 279	1,479
1997	Goldfuss v. Davidson· Concurrence†	79 Ohio St. 3d 116	1,335
2007	State v. Wilson†	113 Ohio St. 3d 382	1,198
1999	Scott-Pontzer v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance· Dissent†	85 Ohio St. 3d 660	871
1997	State v. Reynolds†	79 Ohio St. 3d 158	802
2001	State v. Issa· Dissent†	93 Ohio St. 3d 49	787
2001	State v. Eppinger†	91 Ohio St. 3d 158	734
2000	Doe v. Shaffer· Concurrence†	2000 Ohio 186	688
1998	State v. Getsy· Concurrence†	84 Ohio St. 3d 180	654
1997	State v. Robinette†	80 Ohio St. 3d 234	619
2001	State v. Johnson†	93 Ohio St. 3d 240	585

Showing the 15 most-cited of 884 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 Evelyn Lundberg Stratton on?: Evelyn Lundberg Stratton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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16 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).