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 1993 / Active

Paul E. Pfeifer

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Paul E. Pfeifer is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), serving since 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: Since 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pfeifer authored 530 published opinions for the court (1993–2016), plus 464 dissents and 209 concurrences. Most cited: Dresher v. Burt (7,689 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. 945 of these were attributed to Pfeifer 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
1996	Dresher v. Burt· Concurrence†	75 Ohio St. 3d 280	7,689
2002	State v. Barnes· Dissent†	94 Ohio St. 3d 21	2,256
1993	Pons v. Ohio State Medical Board· Dissent†	66 Ohio St. 3d 619	1,996
2003	Armstrong v. Best Buy Co.· Concurrence†	99 Ohio St. 3d 79	1,165
2003	Westfield Insurance v. Galatis· Dissent†	100 Ohio St. 3d 216	1,062
2015	State v. Ruff· Dissent†	143 Ohio St. 3d 114	912
1995	Horton v. Harwick Chemical Corp.†	73 Ohio St. 3d 679	900
1996	City of Dayton v. Erickson· Dissent†	76 Ohio St. 3d 3	850
2001	State v. Murphy· Dissent†	91 Ohio St. 3d 516	807
2001	State v. Issa· Concurrence†	93 Ohio St. 3d 49	787
2006	State v. Gondor†	112 Ohio St. 3d 377	691
1998	State v. Getsy†	84 Ohio St. 3d 180	654
2004	State v. Jordan· Concurrence†	104 Ohio St. 3d 21	641
1993	Myers v. Garson· Dissent†	66 Ohio St. 3d 610	633
2006	State v. Saxon· Dissent†	109 Ohio St. 3d 176	624

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,203 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 Paul E. Pfeifer on?: Paul E. Pfeifer is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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33 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).