How do judges of the Ohio Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1999 / Active

Beth Whitmore

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Beth Whitmore is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Whitmore authored 511 published opinions for the court (1999–2017), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Carson (106 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. 14 of these were attributed to Whitmore 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
2013	State v. Carson	2013 Ohio 5785	106
2013	State v. Martinez	2013 Ohio 3189	88
1999	In Re Eric Patterson	730 N.E.2d 439	68
2004	State v. Gegia	809 N.E.2d 673	65
2004	State v. Roberts	805 N.E.2d 594	62
2002	Shalkhauser v. City of Medina	772 N.E.2d 129	56
2002	Ferraro v. B.F. Goodrich Company	777 N.E.2d 282	53
2014	JPMorgan Chase Bank, Natl. Assn. v. Burden	2014 Ohio 2746	47
2006	Ball v. Ohio State Home Services, Inc.	168 Ohio App. 3d 622	47
2012	State v. Just	2012 Ohio 4094	45
2016	State v. Sadeghi	2016 Ohio 744	40
2013	State v. Zupancic	2013 Ohio 3072	37
2002	State v. Hunter	783 N.E.2d 991	37
2008	Desai v. Franklin	895 N.E.2d 875	36
2013	Magnum Steel & Trading, L.L.C. v. Mink	2013 Ohio 2431	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 522 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 is Beth Whitmore on?: Beth Whitmore is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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27 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).