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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1955 / Served to 1962

James F. Bell

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

James F. Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1955–1962 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bell authored 82 published opinions for the court (1955–1962), plus 33 dissents and 19 concurrences.

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 134 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
1962	Bolin v. Maxwell· Dissent†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 517
1962	State ex rel. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Leach†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 397
1962	Diltz v. Crouch†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 367
1962	Village of Blue Ash v. City of Cincinnati· Dissent†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 345
1962	Doctors Hospital v. Board of Tax Appeals· Concurrence†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 283
1962	Goodwin v. Neff· Concurrence†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 270
1962	Esteb v. Esteb†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 259
1962	Hearing v. Wylie†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 221
1962	Bowers v. Evans· Concurrence†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 137
1962	Ex parte Oliver†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 125
1962	State ex rel. Green v. Brown†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 114
1962	Board of Pensions of United Presbyterian Church in the United States v. Bowers†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 89
1962	Ohio Water Service Co. v. Ressler· Dissent†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 33
1962	State v. Wetzel· Concurrence†	173 Ohio St. (N.S.) 16
1961	Cupps v. City of Toledo†	172 Ohio St. (N.S.) 536

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 James F. Bell on?: James F. Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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7 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).