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 1972 / Served to 1986

Frank D. Celebrezze

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Frank D. Celebrezze was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2010
Tenure: 1972–1986 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Celebrezze authored 134 published opinions for the court (1973–1986), plus 75 dissents and 47 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Awan (1,385 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. 256 of these were attributed to Celebrezze 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
1986	State v. Awan· Concurrence†	22 Ohio St. 3d 120	1,385
1975	O'Brien v. University Community Tenants Union, Inc.†	42 Ohio St. 2d 242	1,359
1976	State v. Lytle†	48 Ohio St. 2d 391	1,190
1981	State v. Unger†	67 Ohio St. 2d 65	1,145
1978	State v. Eley†	56 Ohio St. 2d 169	832
1980	Ohio v. Freeman· Dissent†	64 Ohio St. 2d 291	666
1979	In re Cunningham†	59 Ohio St. 2d 100	599
1986	Burr v. Board of County Commissioners†	23 Ohio St. 3d 69	501
1976	State v. Gibson†	45 Ohio St. 2d 366	427
1982	Blankenship v. Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc.· Concurrence†	69 Ohio St. 2d 608	394
1980	Ohio v. Wilkins†	64 Ohio St. 2d 382	362
1976	State v. Hester· Concurrence†	45 Ohio St. 2d 71	344
1986	Kalain v. Smith· Dissent†	25 Ohio St. 3d 157	317
1986	State v. Williams· Concurrence†	23 Ohio St. 3d 16	286
1978	State v. Walker· Dissent†	55 Ohio St. 2d 208	274

Showing the 15 most-cited of 256 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 Frank D. Celebrezze on?: Frank D. Celebrezze was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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14 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).