Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill Allegedly Posts About Sexual Encounters On Facebook

An Ohio Supreme Court Justice was criticized Friday after allegedly posting a Facebook status about his sexual encounters. Bill O’Neill’s post was surfaced on Twitter by Eric Heisig, a federal courts reporter for Cleveland.com.

O’Neill, who is also running as a Democratic candidate for governor, has been a member of the Ohio Supreme Court since 2013. O’Neill previously served as an assistant attorney general in Ohio from 1984 to 1996 and founded his own private law firm, O’Neill and Brown. O’Neill is also a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and served in the Vietnam War.

In a Facebook post Friday, O’Neill appeared to weigh in on widespread sexual harassment allegations coming to light, particularly those leveled against Minnesota Sen. Al Franken. Franken was accused this week of groping and forcibly kissing a woman in 2006.

In the Facebook post, O’Neill discussed the “50 very attractive females” with whom he said he had sexual encounters, including a “drop dead gorgeous red head from Cleveland.”

“Now that the dogs of war are calling for the head of Senator Al Franken, I believe it is time to speak up on behalf of all heterosexual males,” O’Neill wrote. “As a candidate for Governor let me save my opponents some research time. In the last fifty years I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females.”

O’Neill then appeared to list some women with whom he had sexual encounters. While O’Neill did not list exact names, he pointed to the women’s past professional positions in politics.

“Now can we get back to discussing legalizing marijuana and opening the state hospital network to combat the opioid crisis,” he wrote. “I am sooooo disappointed by this national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago.”