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 2003 / Active

Maureen O'Connor

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Maureen O'Connor is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Connor authored 204 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 33 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Fischer (1,066 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. 258 of these were attributed to O'Connor 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
2010	State v. Fischer†	2010 Ohio 6238	1,066
2010	State v. Johnson· Concurrence†	2010 Ohio 6314	966
2010	State v. Underwood· Concurrence†	2010 Ohio 1	724
2010	State v. Whitfield†	2010 Ohio 2	453
2010	State v. Bodyke†	2010 Ohio 2424	413
2015	State v. Adams (Slip Opinion)†	2015 Ohio 3954	375
2014	Bank of Am., N.A. v. Kuchta (Slip Opinion)†	2014 Ohio 4275	312
2012	State v. Jones†	2012 Ohio 5677	209
2010	State v. Arnold†	2010 Ohio 2742	197
2012	Moore v. City of Middletown†	2012 Ohio 3897	193
2009	Hayes v. Oakridge Home†	2009 Ohio 2054	188
2010	State v. Miller†	2010 Ohio 5705	171
2010	City of Barberton v. Jenney†	2010 Ohio 2420	169
2016	State v. Obermiller (Slip Opinion)†	2016 Ohio 1594	165
2017	State v. Aalim (Slip Opinion)· Dissent†	2017 Ohio 2956	154

Showing the 15 most-cited of 258 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 Maureen O'Connor on?: Maureen O'Connor is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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23 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).