The Ohio Supreme Court announced the following schedule of swearing-in ceremonies:

  • Justice-elect Sharon L. Kennedy’s ceremony will be December 7 at 1:30 p.m. in the Supreme Court courtroom at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus.
  • Justice-elect William M. O’Neill’s ceremony will be December 27 at 7 p.m. at the Eighth District Court

In case you missed the list of those who put in their names to Gov. Kasich to replace retiring Justice Evelyn Stratton, here it is.  It is interesting how many folks applied from Southwestern Ohio—an area generally underrepresented on the Ohio Supreme Court, although Justice-elect Sharon Kennedy is from Butler County.

Appellate Judges Who have

So many cases, so little time.  With three incumbent justices leaving the Court, there’s going to be a lot of burning the midnight oil to get cases under submission released.  One question I’ve been asked hypothetically is whether the four justices remaining—O’Donnell, Pfeifer, Lanzinger, and Chief Justice O’Connor — could decide any submitted cases that

Judicial elections can be very disruptive to a court’s work, especially an appellate court.  Some would see this as one strike against electing appellate judges. The Supreme Court of Ohio has a lot of pending cases that have been argued and submitted.  Three justices are running this year, two (Justices O’Donnell and Cupp) for re-election,