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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1957 / Served to 1980

Thomas J. Herbert

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Thomas J. Herbert was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1974
Tenure: 1957–1980 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–
1969	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Herbert authored 197 published opinions for the court (1957–1980), plus 106 dissents and 60 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Long (3,848 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. 363 of these were attributed to Herbert 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	State v. Long†	53 Ohio St. 2d 91	3,848
1967	State ex rel. Pressley v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence†	11 Ohio St. 2d 141	1,186
1979	In re Cunningham· Concurrence†	59 Ohio St. 2d 100	599
1968	Sidle v. Humphrey· Dissent†	13 Ohio St. 2d 45	537
1977	Perales v. Nino· Concurrence†	52 Ohio St. 2d 89	446
1970	Rohde v. Farmer· Concurrence†	23 Ohio St. 2d 82	443
1976	State v. Bayless· Concurrence†	48 Ohio St. 2d 73	344
1969	Whitehead v. General Telephone Co.†	20 Ohio St. 2d 108	319
1970	Fortner v. Thomas†	22 Ohio St. 2d 13	308
1972	Morrison v. Steiner†	32 Ohio St. 2d 86	306
1977	Hawkins v. Ivy†	50 Ohio St. 2d 114	277
1980	State v. Roberts†	62 Ohio St. 2d 170	266
1975	State v. Wilson· Concurrence†	41 Ohio St. 2d 236	261
1978	State v. Cotton†	56 Ohio St. 2d 8	259
1973	State v. Poole†	33 Ohio St. 2d 18	171

Showing the 15 most-cited of 363 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 Thomas J. Herbert on?: Thomas J. Herbert was 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).