Robert O. Lukowsky

Robert Owen Lukowsky Jr. (August 23, 1927 – December 5, 1981) was a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 1975 to 1981.

Born in Covington, Kentucky, Lukowsky was the son of Robert O. and Esther Agnes Cole Lukowsky. His paternal grandparents were Russian immigrants. Lukowsky graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1945 and from the University of Cincinnati Law School. He served in the Army Corps of Engineers at the end of World War II and was called to the Kentucky bar in 1949. Lukowsky was the trial commissioner in Kenton County from 1952 to 1955. In 1962, Governor Bert T. Combs appointed him the youngest circuit court judge in the history of Kentucky. He was also a professor at Northern Kentucky University.

He served several terms as circuit judge in Kenton County and helped chart Kentucky's judicial reform and was on the committee that supervised the rewrite of Kentucky's penal code. In 1974, he was elected to the Court of Appeals, which became the Supreme Court after an amendment to the state constitution the following year. The Robert O. Lukowsky award is given annually to the faculty member of the Salmon P. Chase College of Law who is most committed to teaching and developing law students.