Justice of the Supreme Court

Colleen O'Donnell

Full term commencing 1/2/2027; vote for 1; 6-year term. Judicial candidates run without party labels on the general ballot but are nominated in partisan primaries; parties below are the nominating party per the BOE list.

Party: Republican

Background

Her campaign biography lists service as a Franklin County Common Pleas judge, a U.S. immigration judge, an Assistant Ohio Attorney General, and a federal law clerk. These career details are attributed to the campaign. Colleen O’Donnell for Ohio Supreme Court Evidence type: candidate statement · Career history is presented in the candidate’s campaign biography and has not been independently checked in this profile.

Campaign statements and positions

• Her campaign describes her as a constitutional conservative and says she would apply the law as written, protect public safety, and keep partisan politics out of the courthouse. Colleen O’Donnell for Ohio Supreme Court Evidence type: candidate statement · These positions summarize the candidate’s campaign statements.

Promise and record

No selected written trial-court decision authored by O’Donnell is listed here. The published appellate opinion in State ex rel. Mobley v. O’Donnell concerned an oath-of-office filing and was authored by the Tenth District, not O’Donnell; it is not treated as evidence of her broader judicial philosophy. This guide assigns no match score. Tenth District opinion, State ex rel. Mobley v. O’Donnell, 2020-Ohio-251 Evidence type: editorial summary · The official opinion identifies O’Donnell as a respondent in an appellate writ action; the Tenth District authored the decision. It does not provide a selected authored trial-court opinion from which to infer a broader judicial philosophy.

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