Kingsley Arter Taft was an American politician and distant relative of Ohio's more famous Taft family. He served as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and also served briefly as a United States senator. Kingsley's father,Frederick Lovett Taft,II was also a noted figure in the Ohio legal profession.
Maureen O'Connor is an American lawyer and judge who served as the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 2011 to 2022. She was elected to the court in 2002,becoming chief justice in 2010. She was the first woman to lead the Ohio Supreme Court and the longest serving woman elected statewide in Ohio's History.
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1922.
Ralph Sidney Locher was a Romanian-born American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 50th mayor of Cleveland,Ohio.
Paul Martin Newby is an American judge,who was first elected to a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2004. He was elected chief justice in 2020 defeating incumbent Cheri Beasley.
William Michael O'Neill is an American lawyer,judge and political figure. He was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2012,for a term beginning January 2013. He served as an appellate judge on the Ohio Eleventh District Court of Appeals for 10 years. Twice,O'Neill was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative in Ohio's 14th congressional district. He announced on October 29,2017,as a candidate for Ohio Governor in the 2018 election. On December 8,2017,he announced he would resign from the Supreme Court on January 26,2018.
Frederick Lovett Taft was an American lawyer and judge in Ohio. A member of the Taft family and a distant relative of President William Howard Taft,he was one of the leading political and legal men of the city of Cleveland and the state of Ohio from 1896 until his death in April 1913.
Robert Crosser was an American lawyer and politician who served 19 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio. He remains the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Ohio,serving from 1911 to 1919,then again from 1923 until 1955.
William Cleveland Mims is an American jurist and former senior justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia. He is a former member of the Virginia General Assembly and Attorney General of Virginia. He is the second person in Virginia history to serve in these three offices. He presently is a lecturer and director of the pre-law program at Christopher Newport University.
George S. Myers was a Democratic lawyer from Cleveland,Ohio,in the United States,who served in all three branches of the Ohio state government. He served two terms in the Ohio House of Representatives,two terms as Ohio Secretary of State,and finished his life as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court.
Carrington Tanner Marshall was a lawyer from Zanesville,Ohio,United States who served for twelve years as Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court,and was later a judge at the Nuremberg Trials.
Arthur Hiram Day was an American lawyer,politician,judge,and college football coach. A Republican,served two terms as an Ohio State Senator in the 1920s and a six-year term as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court,from 1935 to 1940. Day was the head football coach at Trinity University in Waxahachie,Texas for one season,in 1912.
Roy Hughes Williams was a lawyer from the U.S. State of Ohio who served as a prosecutor,local and appellate judge,and was a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio from 1934 until his death.
Sharon Lee Kennedy is an American jurist who has served as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court since 2023. She was first elected to the court as an associate justice in 2012 after serving as a judge of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas from 1999 to 2012.
Judith L. “Judi”French is an American jurist. She was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court by Governor John Kasich,to replace Evelyn Lundberg Stratton,who resigned. A graduate of The Ohio State University,she previously served as a judge of the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals. She lost re-election in 2020 to Democratic appeals court judge Jennifer Brunner.
The Ohio general elections,2014 were held on November 4,2014,throughout Ohio,with polls opened between 6:30AM and 7:30PM. The close of registration for electors in the primary election was April 7,2014,and the primary election day took place on May 6,2014.
Lynn B. Griffith was a judge from Trumbull County,Ohio who was elected multiple times to Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals and was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1962.
Leonard J. Stern was a Republican lawyer from Ohio who served as a Common Pleas judge,an appeals court judge and from 1970 to 1977 was a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Francis Servis Wilson was an American jurist.
The 1946 United States Senate elections in Ohio was held on November 5,1946,alongside a concurrent special election to the same seat.
