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 2005 / Active

Judith Ann Lanzinger

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Judith Ann Lanzinger is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lanzinger authored 198 published opinions for the court (2005–2016), plus 124 dissents and 89 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Foster (3,571 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. 299 of these were attributed to Lanzinger 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
2006	State v. Foster†	109 Ohio St. 3d 1	3,571
2012	Eastley v. Volkman	2012 Ohio 2179	2,407
2008	State v. Kalish· Dissent†	120 Ohio St. 3d 23	1,234
2007	State v. Wilson· Concurrence†	113 Ohio St. 3d 382	1,198
2010	State v. Fischer· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 6238	1,066
2006	State v. Mathis†	109 Ohio St. 3d 54	1,010
2015	State v. Ruff†	143 Ohio St. 3d 114	912
2007	State v. Payne· Concurrence†	114 Ohio St. 3d 502	801
2008	State v. Veney· Concurrence†	120 Ohio St. 3d 176	725
2010	State v. Underwood	2010 Ohio 1	724
2008	State v. Clark· Dissent†	119 Ohio St. 3d 239	654
2011	State v. Lester· Dissent†	2011 Ohio 5204	501
2008	State v. Baker†	119 Ohio St. 3d 197	500
2016	State v. McKelton (Slip Opinion)†	2016 Ohio 5735	457
2010	State v. Whitfield· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 2	453

Showing the 15 most-cited of 411 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 is Judith Ann Lanzinger on?: Judith Ann Lanzinger is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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21 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).