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Paul Pfeifer

Paul Pfeifer
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
In office
January 2, 1993 – January 1, 2017
Preceded by Herbert R. Brown
Succeeded by Pat DeWine
Member of the Ohio Senate
from the 26th district
In office
January 3, 1977-December 31, 1992
Preceded by Gene Slagle
Succeeded by Karen Gillmor
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 15th district
In office
January 3, 1971-December 31, 1972
Preceded by Robert Carpenter
Succeeded by Gene Damschroder
Personal details
Born (1942-10-15) October 15, 1942 (age 74)
Bucyrus, Ohio, U.S.
Political party Republican

Paul E. Pfeifer (born October 15, 1942) is an American jurist. He served in both houses of the Ohio General Assembly as a member of the Ohio Republican party and was most recently an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Pfeifer was born in Bucyrus in 1942. He grew up on his family's dairy farm near Bucyrus. As a teenager, he raised purebred Yorkshire hogs to finance his college education. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in economics, political science, and history in 1963 from Ohio State University. In 1966, he also earned a law degree from the College of Law.

Pfeifer owns a cattle farm in Crawford County, near his childhood home. Pfeifer and his wife Julia have three children and four grandchildren.

From 1967 to 1970, he worked as an assistant attorney general under Ohio Attorney General William B. Saxbe. Pfeifer practiced law – tax and trial law – as a partner with the firm Cory, Brown & Pfeifer from 1972 to 1992. From 1973 to 1976, he also served as an assistant to the Crawford County prosecutor.

In 1970, Pfeifer was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. Pfeifer served as an Ohio state representative from 1971 to 1972. In 1976, he successfully ran for a seat in the Ohio Senate. Pfeifer was re-elected in 1980, 1984, and 1988. From 1983 to 1984, Pfeifer was minority floor leader and from 1985 to 1986, with a Republican majority in the Senate, Pfeifer became Assistant President Pro Tempore.

In 1982, Pfeifer ran for the U.S. Senate, but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Howard Metzenbaum.


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