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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1985 / Served to 1996

J. Craig Wright

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

J. Craig Wright was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–2010
Tenure: 1985–1996 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wright authored 266 published opinions for the court (1985–1996), plus 267 dissents and 124 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bradley (7,124 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. 600 of these were attributed to Wright 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
1989	State v. Bradley· Dissent†	42 Ohio St. 3d 136	7,124
1990	State v. Lott†	51 Ohio St. 3d 160	1,930
1992	State v. Mills†	62 Ohio St. 3d 357	1,624
1990	AAAA Enterprises, Inc. v. River Place Community Urban Redevelopment Corp.· Dissent†	50 Ohio St. 3d 157	1,562
1995	Grava v. Parkman Township†	73 Ohio St. 3d 379	1,323
1985	State v. Smith†	17 Ohio St. 3d 98	1,185
1985	In re Adoption of Holcomb†	18 Ohio St. 3d 361	1,100
1991	Wing v. Anchor Media, Ltd.†	59 Ohio St. 3d 108	1,066
1988	State v. Bobo· Dissent†	37 Ohio St. 3d 177	1,010
1991	In re Jane Doe 1· Concurrence†	57 Ohio St. 3d 135	969
1995	State v. Garner· Dissent†	74 Ohio St. 3d 49	957
1991	State v. Andrews· Dissent†	57 Ohio St. 3d 86	948
1985	Huffman v. Hair Surgeon, Inc.· Concurrence†	19 Ohio St. 3d 83	830
1987	Griffey v. Rajan· Dissent†	33 Ohio St. 3d 75	822
1996	In re William S.· Dissent†	75 Ohio St. 3d 95	811

Showing the 15 most-cited of 657 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 J. Craig Wright on?: J. Craig Wright was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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11 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).