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 1964 / Served to 1972

Louis J. Schneider Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Louis J. Schneider Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1999
Tenure: 1964–1972 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schneider authored 101 published opinions for the court (1965–1972), plus 28 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Whitaker-Merrell Co. v. Carl M. Geupel Construction Co. (349 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. 161 of these were attributed to Schneider 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
1972	Whitaker-Merrell Co. v. Carl M. Geupel Construction Co.†	29 Ohio St. 2d 184	349
1972	O'Day v. Webb†	29 Ohio St. 2d 215	327
1971	Dorrian v. Scioto Conservancy District· Dissent†	27 Ohio St. 2d 102	298
1968	State v. White†	15 Ohio St. 2d 146	242
1970	State v. Stephens· Concurrence†	24 Ohio St. 2d 76	234
1969	State v. Deal†	17 Ohio St. 2d 17	166
1969	Di Gildo v. Caponi†	18 Ohio St. 2d 125	156
1972	Krause v. State· Concurrence†	31 Ohio St. 2d 132	145
1969	State v. Eaton· Concurrence†	19 Ohio St. 2d 145	145
1972	State ex rel. Adams v. Gusweiler†	30 Ohio St. 2d 326	134
1969	In re Agler· Dissent†	19 Ohio St. 2d 70	108
1972	State ex rel. Trydle v. Industrial Commission· Dissent†	32 Ohio St. 2d 257	91
1966	Jenkins v. Keller· Dissent†	6 Ohio St. 2d 122	91
1971	Motorists Mutual Ins. Co. v. Tomanski†	27 Ohio St. 2d 222	90
1970	Briere v. Lathrop Co.· Concurrence†	22 Ohio St. 2d 166	90

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 Louis J. Schneider Jr. on?: Louis J. Schneider Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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8 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).