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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1962 / Served to 1964

Lynn B. Griffith

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Lynn B. Griffith was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1978
Tenure: 1962–1964 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Oberlin College
Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffith authored 26 published opinions for the court (1962–1964).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 26 of these were attributed to Griffith 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
1964	Koch v. Rhodes†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 163
1964	Price v. Dot's Super Market, Inc.†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 122
1964	State v. Chamberlain†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 104
1964	Allen County Mutual Ins. v. Vorys†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 456
1964	Fortelka v. Meifert†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 476
1964	Ventress v. Frambes†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 337
1964	Thompson v. Reibel†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 258
1964	State ex rel. Ray v. South†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 241
1964	Friedman Transfer & Construction Co. v. City of Youngstown†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 209
1964	State ex rel. Welsh v. Ohio State Medical Board†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 136
1964	R. H. Macy Co. v. Schneider†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 94
1964	Cope v. Campbell†	175 Ohio St. (N.S.) 475
1964	State ex rel. Frye v. Bachrach†	175 Ohio St. (N.S.) 419
1964	State v. Ferguson†	175 Ohio St. (N.S.) 390
1963	Lohnes v. Young†	175 Ohio St. (N.S.) 291

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Lynn B. Griffith on?: Lynn B. Griffith was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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2 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).