[4] She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Toledo, with a dual major in education and English.
[4] In 2009, she wrote a ruling that found "police need a warrant to search suspects' cellphones," which was later upheld in 2015 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
[5] In her term for Justice, she ran against Mary Jane Trap, presiding judge of the 11th District Ohio Court of Appeals.
In one case of great interest to Cleveland and other cities, she dissented from a ruling that overturned local residency laws for public employees; the legislature, she wrote, had overstepped its boundaries and violated the "home rule" language of the Ohio Constitution.
"[7] Lanzinger, a Republican, was elected to the Supreme Court in 2004, taking office on New Year's Day 2005.
Due to Ohio's mandatory retirement for judges who have reached the age of 70, she did not run for re-election in 2016.