Ohio constitution
Article IV: judicial
Section 4

(C) Unless otherwise provided by law, there shall be
probate division and such other divisions of the courts
of common pleas as may be provided by law. Judges
shall be elected specifically to such probate division
and to such other divisions. The judges of the probate
division shall be empowered to employ and control the
clerks, employees, deputies, and referees of such probate
division of the common pleas courts.