Melody J. Stewart (born February 19, 1962)[citation needed] is a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Stewart was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2018, having defeated incumbent Justice Mary DeGenaro.
Stewart earned a Bachelor of Music in music theory from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati; her Juris Doctor as a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law; and her Doctor of Philosophy as a Mandel Leadership Fellow at Case Western Reserve University’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
[1] On November 8, 2018, Stewart faced incumbent Mary DeGenaro in the general election for a seat on the Supreme Court.
[3] Stewart worked as a lecturer, an adjunct instructor, and an assistant dean at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law before joining the faculty.