Courts & rulings
Ohio · highest court
Supreme Court of Ohio
Elected (nonpartisan)
Chief: Voters elect the Chief Justice to that specific seat in a separate statewide election (since 2021 partisan-affiliated; justices otherwise on a nonpartisan general-election ballot).
Justices
All judges & justices →- Sharon L. Kennedy
- Patrick F. Fischer
- R. Patrick DeWine
- Jennifer Brunner
- Joseph T. Deters
- Daniel R. Hawkins
- Megan E. Shanahan
Roster as of 2026-06-13.
Constitution of the State of Ohio
Adopted 1851. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Bill of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Ohio constitution means.
Primacy, interprets its own constitution first
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).