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 1978 / Served to 1992

Robert E. Holmes

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Robert E. Holmes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2004
Tenure: 1978–1992 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Holmes authored 231 published opinions for the court (1978–1992), plus 325 dissents and 172 concurrences. Most cited: Knapp v. Edwards Laboratories (2,064 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. 721 of these were attributed to Holmes 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
1980	Knapp v. Edwards Laboratories· Concurrence†	61 Ohio St. 2d 197	2,064
1986	State v. Awan†	22 Ohio St. 3d 120	1,385
1984	Menifee v. Ohio Welding Products, Inc.†	15 Ohio St. 3d 75	1,296
1984	Nolan v. Nolan· Dissent†	11 Ohio St. 3d 1	893
1981	State v. Ballard†	66 Ohio St. 2d 473	893
1985	Huffman v. Hair Surgeon, Inc.· Concurrence†	19 Ohio St. 3d 83	830
1992	State Ex Rel. Hanson v. Guernsey County Board of Commissioners· Dissent†	1992 Ohio 73	822
1983	Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America· Concurrence†	6 Ohio St. 3d 369	822
1988	State v. Deem†	40 Ohio St. 3d 205	773
1992	State v. Murnahan†	63 Ohio St. 3d 60	753
1988	Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.†	36 Ohio St. 3d 100	744
1981	Strother v. Hutchinson· Dissent†	67 Ohio St. 2d 282	727
1979	State v. Logan†	60 Ohio St. 2d 126	696
1989	Chef Italiano Corp. v. Kent State Univ.· Dissent†	44 Ohio St. 3d 86	682
1983	State v. Underwood· Concurrence†	3 Ohio St. 3d 12	673

Showing the 15 most-cited of 728 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 E. Holmes on?: Robert E. Holmes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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14 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).