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 1970 / Served to 1977

Leonard J. Stern

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Leonard J. Stern was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1988
Tenure: 1970–1977 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stern authored 53 published opinions for the court (1970–1976), plus 28 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Posin v. A. B. C. Motor Court Hotel, Inc. (510 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. 89 of these were attributed to Stern 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
1976	Posin v. A. B. C. Motor Court Hotel, Inc.· Dissent†	45 Ohio St. 2d 271	510
1975	Stores Realty Co. v. City of Cleveland†	41 Ohio St. 2d 41	458
1976	State v. Bayless†	48 Ohio St. 2d 73	344
1971	Windham Bank v. Tomaszczyk· Dissent†	27 Ohio St. 2d 55	287
1975	State v. Milanovich†	42 Ohio St. 2d 46	253
1975	Hahn v. Kotten· Dissent†	43 Ohio St. 2d 237	251
1976	State v. Woods†	48 Ohio St. 2d 127	225
1973	Presley v. City of Norwood†	36 Ohio St. 2d 29	205
1975	Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Local Union No. 200, United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers†	42 Ohio St. 2d 516	179
1974	In re Termination of Employment of Pratt†	40 Ohio St. 2d 107	176
1973	State ex rel. Dallman v. Court of Common Pleas†	35 Ohio St. 2d 176	176
1976	Southgate Development Corp. v. Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.· Dissent†	48 Ohio St. 2d 211	175
1972	State v. Chaffin†	30 Ohio St. 2d 13	147
1976	State v. Robinson†	47 Ohio St. 2d 103	146
1975	State v. Maupin· Dissent†	42 Ohio St. 2d 473	144

Showing the 15 most-cited of 89 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 Leonard J. Stern on?: Leonard J. Stern 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).