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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1987 / Served to 2011

Ann Marie R Kirchner Dyke

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Ann Marie R Kirchner Dyke was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2011 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Cleveland State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dyke authored 150 published opinions for the court (1988–2010), plus 20 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Scalf (84 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 18 of these were attributed to Dyke by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1998	State v. Scalf	710 N.E.2d 1206	84
1991	State v. Calvillo	603 N.E.2d 325	54
1994	State v. Ivey· Dissent	648 N.E.2d 519	46
1989	State v. Scott	578 N.E.2d 841	43
2007	Siebert v. Tavarez, 88310 (5-31-2007)· Dissent	2007 Ohio 2643	34
1991	State v. Fincher	603 N.E.2d 329	33
1992	City of Garfield Heights v. Simpson	611 N.E.2d 892	32
1999	State v. Thompson· Concurrence	748 N.E.2d 1144	31
1988	City of Cleveland v. City of Fairview Park	545 N.E.2d 1287	28
1993	Fletcher v. Don Foss of Cleveland, Inc.· Concurrence	628 N.E.2d 60	27
1999	State v. Cantin	726 N.E.2d 565	26
2005	Courie v. Alcoa	162 Ohio App. 3d 133	25
2007	In Re Q.G.	170 Ohio App. 3d 609	23
1998	Felker v. Schwenke	129 Ohio App. 3d 427	23
2005	State v. Eppinger	835 N.E.2d 746	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 180 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Ohio Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Ann Marie R Kirchner Dyke on?: Ann Marie R Kirchner Dyke was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 years on the Ohio Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).