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 2007 / Served to 2013

Robert R. Cupp

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Robert R. Cupp was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 2007–2013 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Ohio Northern University
Ohio Northern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cupp authored 87 published opinions for the court (2007–2012), plus 36 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Payne (801 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 Cupp 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
2007	State v. Payne· Concurrence†	114 Ohio St. 3d 502	801
2010	State v. Underwood· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 1	724
2011	State v. Lester	2011 Ohio 5204	501
2012	State v. Morris	2012 Ohio 2407	478
2010	State v. Bodyke· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 2424	413
2009	State v. Perez	2009 Ohio 6179	306
2008	Taylor Building Corp. of America v. Benfield†	117 Ohio St. 3d 352	259
2010	State v. Hodge	2010 Ohio 6320	255
2007	Arbino v. Johnson & Johnson· Concurrence†	2007 Ohio 6948	255
2008	State v. Schlee· Concurrence†	117 Ohio St. 3d 153	247
2012	State v. Qualls	2012 Ohio 1111	244
2009	Wilborn v. Bank One Corp.†	121 Ohio St. 3d 546	179
2011	Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation v. McKinley	2011 Ohio 4432	150
2011	Sunoco, Inc. (R & M) v. Toledo Edison Co.· Dissent†	2011 Ohio 2720	149
2012	In re C.P.· Dissent†	2012 Ohio 1446	141

Showing the 15 most-cited of 146 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 Robert R. Cupp on?: Robert R. Cupp was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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6 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).