Thomas Stanley Matthews,known as Stanley Matthews in adulthood,was an American attorney,soldier,judge and Republican senator from Ohio who became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court,serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889. A progressive justice,he was the author of the landmark ruling in Yick Wo v. Hopkins.
The Ohio Supreme Court,Officially known as The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio,with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members,a chief justice and six associate justices,who are elected at large by the voters of Ohio for six-year terms. The court has a total of 1,550 other employees. Since 2004,the court has met in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center on the east bank of the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus. Prior to 2004,the court met in the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower and earlier in the Judiciary Annex of the Ohio Statehouse.
Richard Patrick DeWine is an American attorney,politician and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court since 2017. He is the son of former U.S. Senator and Ohio Attorney General and current Governor Mike DeWine.
Joseph Theodore Deters is an American politician and lawyer who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
James Edgar Robinson was an American lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1919 to 1932. He was the maternal grandfather of First Lady Barbara Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush.
Riley Evans Stratton was an American attorney and judge in Oregon. He served as the 11th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,serving from 1859 until 1866. He was one of the first group of justices elected to the court,along with Aaron E. Wait and Paine Page Prim;previous members of the court were appointed during Oregon's territorial period.
Paul Lincoln Adams was an American lawyer,politician,and judge from Michigan. He served as a mayor of Sault Ste. Marie,as a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents,as Michigan Attorney General,and as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Matt Huffman is an American politician serving as a member of the Ohio Senate,representing the 12th district since 2017,and currently serving as the Ohio Senate President as a Republican. The district includes Allen,Champaign,Mercer and Shelby counties,as well as parts of Auglaize,Darke and Logan counties.
Charles Elbridge Cox was an American lawyer and judge who became the 55th justice of the Indiana Supreme Court,serving from 1911 to 1917. Elected as a Democrat in the Fall of 1910,he was Chief Justice by the end of his six-year term. The "Marshall Constitution" case and the "Technical Institute" case were among the important decisions made by the court during his tenure. As a judge in the Indiana Supreme Court and in lower courts,he never had a decision reversed.
William B. Caldwell was a Democratic Party jurist in the U.S. state of Ohio who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court 1849–1854.
Robert Henry Day was a Republican lawyer from Massillon,Ohio,United States who served as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1923 until his death.
James Granville Johnson Jr. was a Democratic lawyer who was Mayor of Springfield,Ohio and a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Robert Nestor Gorman was an American judge in Ohio. He was appointed to a seat as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in 1937.
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 from Hamilton,Ohio who serves as an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court,after being elected on November 6,2012. In 2022,she was elected to serve as the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Charles Steele Bell was a lawyer from Cincinnati,Ohio who served as a prosecutor and judge. He was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio 1942–1947.
Patrick F. Fischer is a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. He was first elected in 2016 and subsequently re-elected in 2022.
Ralph Lazier Berkshire was a lawyer,judge,and Republican politician who helped found the state of West Virginia and became the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Although defeated for re-election,Berkshire again served from September 10,1868 until December 31,1872,and later represented Monongalia County in the West Virginia Senate (1874-1878) as well as continued practicing law.
Russell 'Russ' Mock is an American judge who formerly served on the First District Court of Appeals for the State of Ohio. Judge Mock is serving his third term as the court's Presiding and Administrative Judge. The Court of Appeals is the second highest court in Ohio,second to the Supreme Court of Ohio. Prior to his election to the Court of Appeals,Mock served for a decade on the Hamilton County Municipal Court,where he served two terms as the presiding judge over the municipal court. Mock also volunteered to run the Hamilton County Housing Court. Judge Mock is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association,the Cincinnati Bar Association and the Ohio Judicial Conference where he serves on the Appellate Law &Procedure Committee.
