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 1978

Robert E. Leach

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Robert E. Leach was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–1993
Tenure: 1978–1978

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Leach authored 4 published opinions for the court (1978), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Alexander v. Mt. Carmel Medical Center (162 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. 9 of these were attributed to Leach 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
1978	Alexander v. Mt. Carmel Medical Center· Dissent†	56 Ohio St. 2d 155	162
1978	Milligan v. Ohio Bell Telephone Co.· Concurrence†	56 Ohio St. 2d 191	56
1978	Campbell v. Central Terminal Warehouse· Dissent†	56 Ohio St. 2d 173	36
1978	Wooster Republican Printing Co. v. City of Wooster†	56 Ohio St. 2d 126	30
1978	State v. Strawther· Concurrence†	56 Ohio St. 2d 298	19
1978	State v. Goodin†	56 Ohio St. 2d 438	14
1978	State v. Vorys†	56 Ohio St. 2d 107	7
1978	Village of Elmwood Place v. Denike· Dissent†	56 Ohio St. 2d 427	6
1978	Fulton County Board of Education v. Giles†	56 Ohio St. 2d 433	0

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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. Leach on?: Robert E. Leach was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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Joined the court in 1978. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).