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 1940 / Served to 1950

Gilbert C. Turner

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Gilbert C. Turner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1872–1950
Tenure: 1940–1950 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Turner authored 153 published opinions for the court (1940–1950), plus 33 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Petro (494 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. 9 of these were attributed to Turner 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
1947	State v. Petro	76 N.E.2d 370	494
1943	Norwood v. McDonald· Dissent	52 N.E.2d 67	339
1944	Sears v. Weimer	55 N.E.2d 413	277
1940	Steiner v. Custer· Dissent	31 N.E.2d 855	253
1942	Ohio Contract Carriers Ass'n v. Public Utilities Commission	42 N.E.2d 758	197
1947	State v. Petro	76 N.E.2d 355	131
1947	Ullmann v. May	72 N.E.2d 63	124
1946	Saberton v. Greenwald	66 N.E.2d 224	97
1943	Gillum v. Industrial Commission	48 N.E.2d 234	92
1947	State v. Nevius	71 N.E.2d 258	83
1941	Smiley v. Arrow Spring Bed Co.· Dissent	33 N.E.2d 3	64
1944	Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Evatt	54 N.E.2d 132	63
1950	Angell v. City of Toledo	91 N.E.2d 250	60
1949	Farrand v. State Medical Board	85 N.E.2d 113	56
1945	Clendenning v. McCall	60 N.E.2d 676	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 194 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 Gilbert C. Turner on?: Gilbert C. Turner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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9 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).