Ohio Revised Code Title XXXIII. Education Libraries § 3301.02

(A) Members of the board shall serve four-year terms beginning the first day of January and ending on the thirty-first day of December.  

(B) No person shall hold the office of member of the state board of education for a period of longer than two successive terms of four years.  Terms shall be considered successive unless separated by a period of four or more years.  Only terms beginning on or after January 1, 1996, shall be considered in determining an individual's eligibility to hold office.

(C) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, members who were elected or appointed under this section as it existed prior to the effective date of this amendment shall remain in office until the expiration of their current terms.  Upon the expiration of the current term of elected members, all eleven elected offices shall be abolished and no successor shall be elected after the effective date of this amendment.  If such elected member vacates the office prior to the expiration of the member's term, no individual shall be appointed or elected to fill that vacancy, and that office is abolished.  The offices of the first three appointed members to reach the expiration of their current terms or vacate the office prior to the expiration of their current terms shall be abolished.  Thereafter, the state board consists of five appointed members as prescribed under section 3301.01 of the Revised Code.