The Supreme Court of Ohio
& The Ohio Judicial System

Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio
1803 to the Present

1803 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | Events in Ohio court history

1. Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.
   April 1803 - December 1804
   (as first Chief Judge)
   February 1808 - January 1809
2. William Sprigg
   April 1803 - April 1806
   1808 - 1810
3. Samuel Huntington
   April 1803 - December 1808
4. Daniel Symmes
   January 1805 - Jan. 9, 1808
5. George Tod
   April 1806 - 1810
6. Thomas Scott
   February 1809 - February 1816
7. Thomas Morris
   February 1809 - 1810
8. William W. Irwin
   February 1810 - February 1816
9. Ethan Allen Brown
   February 1810 - December 1818
10. Jessup Nash Couch
    February 1816 - 1821
11. John McLean
    Feb. 17, 1816 - 1822
12. Calvin Pease
    February 1816 - February 1830
13. Peter Hitchcock
    Feb. 5, 1819 - February 1833
    March 7, 1835 - February 1842
    Feb. 16, 1845 - Feb. 9, 1852
14. Jacob Burnett
    1821 - Dec. 11, 1828
15. Charles Robert Sherman
    January 1823 - 1829
16. Joshua Collett
    February 1829 - February 1835
17. Elijah Hayward
    February 1830 - 1830
18. John Milton Goodenow
    February 1830 - 1830
19. Henry Brush
    1830 - 1831
20. Gustave Swan
    1830 - 1831
21. Ebenezer Lane
    December 1830 - December 1845
22. John C. Wright
    1830 - February 1845
23. Reuben Wood
    Feb. 17, 1833 - 1846
24. Frederick Grimke
    February 1836 - 1842
25. Matthew Birchard
    February 1842 - February 1849
26. Nathaniel C. Reed
    March 1842 - 1849
27. Edward Avery
    February 1847 - March 17, 1851
28. Rufus Pain Spaulding
    March 1849 - February 1852
29. William P. Caldwell
    March 1849 - December 1854



30. Rufus P. Ranney
    March 17, 1851 - Feb. 15, 1857
    Feb. 9, 1863 - Feb. 23, 1865
31. Thomas Welles Bartley
    February 1852 - February 1859
32. John A. Corwin
    Feb. 6, 1852 - December 1854
33. Allen G. Thurman
    February 1852 - March 1856
34. Robert B. Warden
    December 1854 - Feb. 9, 1855
35. William Kennon
    December 1854 - March 1856
36. Joseph Rockwell Swan
    February 1855 - November 1859
37. Charles Cleveland Convers
    Feb. 9, 1856 - May 11, 1856
38. Jacob Brinkerhoff
    March 1856 - February 1871
39. Ozias Bowen
    May 1856 - February 1858
40. Josiah Scott
    Feb. 15, 1857 - Feb. 9, 1872
41. Milton Sutliff
    1857 - 1868
42. William Virgil Peck
    February 1859 - February 1864
43. William Y. Gholson
    November 1859 - December 1863
44. Horace Wilder
    December 1863 - February 1865
45. Hocking H. Hunter
    Feb. 9, 1864 - Feb. 10, 1864
46. William White
    Feb. 10, 1864 - March 12, 1883
47. Luther Day
    February 1865 - February 1875
48. John Welch
    February 1865 - February 1878
49. George W. McIlvaine
    Feb. 9, 1871 - February 1886
50. William H. West
    February 1872 - 1873
51. Walter F. Stone
    1873 - September 1874
52. George Rex
    Sept. 11, 1874 - Feb. 9, 1877
53. William J. Gilmore
    Feb. 9, 1875 - Feb. 9, 1880
54. Washington W. Boynton
    Feb. 8, 1877 - Nov. 9, 1881
55. John W. Okey
    Feb. 9, 1878 - July 25, 1885
56. William W. Johnson
    1879 - November 1886
57. Nicholas Longworth
    November 1881 - March 9, 1883
58. William H. Upson
    March 4, 1883 - December 1883
59. John H. Doyle
    March 10, 1883 - December 1883
60. Martin Dewey Follett
    December 1883 - Feb. 9, 1888
61. Selwyn N. Owen
    December 1883 - Feb. 9, 1889
62. Gibson Atherton
    Aug. 18, 1885 - Dec. 18, 1885
63. William T. Spear
    Dec. 16, 1885 - Dec. 31, 1912
64. Thaddeus A. Minshall
    Feb. 9, 1886 - February 1902
65. Franklin J. Dickman
    Nov. 10, 1886 - February 1895
66. Marshall Jay Williams
    February 1887 - July 7, 1902
67. Joseph Perry Bradbury
    Feb. 9, 1889 - Jan. 10, 1900
68. Jacob F. Burket
    Feb. 9, 1893 - Feb. 9, 1904
69. John Allen Shauck
    Feb. 9, 1895 - Dec. 31, 1914



70. William Z. Davis
    Jan. 10, 1900 - Dec. 31, 1912
71. James Latimer Price
    Feb. 9, 1902 - March 11, 1912
72. William B. Crew
    July 19, 1902 - Jan. 1, 1911
73. Augustus N. Summers
    February 1904 - January 1911
74. James G. Johnson
    Jan. 1, 1911 - Aug. 3, 1922
75. Maurice H. Donahue
    Jan. 1, 1911 - Nov. 15, 1919
76. Joseph W. O'Hara
    April. 17, 1912 - Dec. 20, 1912
77. J. Foster Wilkin
    Dec. 20, 1912 - Dec. 4, 1914
78. R. M. Wanamaker
    Jan. 1, 1913 - June 18, 1923
79. Oscar W. Newman
    Jan. 1, 1913 - December 1918
80. Hugh L. Nichols
    Sept. 22, 1913 - Dec. 31, 1920
    (as Chief Justice)
81. Thomas A. Jones
    Jan. 1, 1915 - August 1937
82. Edward S. Matthias
    Jan. 1, 1915 - November 1953
83. James E. Robinson
    Jan. 1, 1919 - January 1932
84. Stanley W. Merrill
    Dec. 2, 1919 - June 18, 1920
85. Coleman W. Avery
    June 18, 1920 - Dec. 7, 1920
86. Benson W. Hough
    Dec. 7, 1920 - Dec. 31, 1922
87. Carrington T. Marshall
    Jan. 1, 1921 - Dec. 31, 1932
    (as Chief Justice)
88. George H. Clark
    Aug. 10, 1922 - Dec. 31, 1922
89. Robert H. Day
    Jan. 1, 1923 - Sept. 29, 1933
90. Florence E. Allen
    Jan. 1, 1923 - April 1934
91. Harry. L. Conn
    June 24, 1923 - Dec. 3, 1924
92. Reynolds R. Kinkade
    Jan. 1, 1925 - May 15, 1933
93. Will P. Stephenson
    Jan. 1932 - December 1936
94. Carl V. Weygandt
    Jan. 1, 1933 - December 1962
    (as Chief Justice)
95. Howard L. Bevis
    June 12, 1933 - November 1934
96. Charles B. Zimmerman
    Oct. 4, 1933 - June 1969
97. Robert N. Wilkin
    April 1934 - December 1934
98. William L. Hart
    November 1934 - December 1934
    January 1939 - January 1957
99. W. F. Garver
    November 1934 - December 1934
100. Roy H. Williams
     November 1934 - December 1946
101. Arthur H. Day
     January 1935 - December 1940
102. George S. Myers
     January 1937 - May 1940
103. Robert N. Gorman
     September 1937 - November 1938
104. William C. Dixon
     November 1938 - December 1938
105. Edward C. Turner
     October 1940 - October 1950
106. Gilbert Bettman
     January 1941 - July 1942
107. Charles S. Bell
     November 1942 - March 1947
108. Robert M. Sohngen
     December 1946 - December 1948
109. James Garfield Stewart
     March 1947 - April 1959
110. Kingsley A. Taft
     January 1949 - December 1962
     January 1963 - March 28, 1970
     (as Chief Justice)



111. Howard E. Fought
     October 1950 - November 1950
112. Henry A. Middleton
     November 1950 - 1954
113. John H. Lamneck
     November 1953 - November 1954
114. John M. Matthias
     November 1954 - September 1970
115. James F. Bell
     January 1955 - October 1962
116. Thomas J. Herbert
     January 1957 - January 1963
117. John W. Peck
     April 1959 - November 1960
118. C. William O'Neill
     November 1960 - April 1970
     April 3, 1970 - Aug. 20, 1978
     (as Chief Justice)
119. Lynn B. Griffith
     October 1962 - Dec. 31, 1964
120. Rankin Gibson
     January 1963 - November 1964
121. Paul M. Herbert
     January 1963 - January 1969
122. Louis J. Schneider, Jr.
     November 1964 - December 1972
123. Paul W. Brown
     November 1964 - Dec. 31, 1968
     January 1973 - Aug. 31, 1981
124. Robert M. Duncan
     Jan. 2, 1969 - Nov. 26, 1971
125. Thomas M. Herbert
     January 1969 - July 31, 1980
126. J.J.P. Corrigan
     September 1969 - December 1976
127. Leonard J. Stern
     August 1970 - January 1977
128. Robert E. Leach
     September 1970 - August 1978
     August 1978 - Dec. 10, 1978
     (as Chief Justice)
129. Lloyd O. Brown
     December 1971 - Jan. 1, 1973
130. Frank D. Celebrezze
     Dec. 8, 1972 - Dec. 10, 1978
     Dec. 11, 1978 - Dec. 31, 1986
     (as Chief Justice)
131. William B. Brown
     Jan. 1, 1973 - Dec. 31, 1984
132. A. William Sweeney
     Jan. 1, 1977 - Dec. 31, 1994
133. Ralph S. Locher
     Jan. 2, 1977 - Jan. 1, 1989
134. Robert E. Holmes
     Dec. 11, 1978 - Dec. 31, 1992
135. David D. Dowd
     July 31, 1980 - Jan. 1, 1981
136. Clifford F. Brown
     Jan. 2, 1981 - Jan. 1, 1987
137. Blanche Krupansky
     Sept. 1, 1981 - Jan. 10, 1983
138. James P. Celebrezze
     Jan. 11, 1983 - Jan. 1, 1985
139. Andy Douglas
     Jan. 1, 1985 - Dec. 31, 2002
140. Craig Wright
     Jan. 2, 1985 - March 6, 1996
141. Herbert R. Brown
     Jan. 2, 1987 - Jan. 1, 1993
142. Alice Robie Resnick
     Jan. 2, 1989 - Jan. 1, 2007
143. Francis E. Sweeney, Sr.
     Jan. 1, 1993 - Dec. 31, 2004
144. Deborah L. Cook
     Jan. 1, 1995 - May 16, 2003