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 1997 / Active

Cheryl L. Waite

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Cheryl L. Waite is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Waite authored 762 published opinions for the court (1997–2026), plus 10 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Cole v. American Industries & Resources Corp. (135 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. 10 of these were attributed to Waite 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	Cole v. American Industries & Resources Corp.	715 N.E.2d 1179	135
2000	Helman v. Epl Prolong, Inc.	743 N.E.2d 484	122
2000	Rohrbaugh v. Rohrbaugh	737 N.E.2d 551	102
2001	State v. High	757 N.E.2d 1176	58
2009	U.S. Bank National Association v. Marcino	908 N.E.2d 1032	57
2015	State v. Williams	2015 Ohio 4100	53
2010	State v. Barnhart	2010 Ohio 3282	53
2002	Anderson v. Anderson	771 N.E.2d 303	53
1998	State v. Rice	129 Ohio App. 3d 91	45
2011	State v. Merritt	2011 Ohio 1468	43
2003	Daniel E. Terreri & Sons, Inc. v. Mahoning County Board of Commissioners	786 N.E.2d 921	39
1999	In Re Royal	725 N.E.2d 685	39
2007	State v. Irwin, 06 Ma 20 (9-19-2007)	2007 Ohio 4996	36
2007	State v. Starkey, 06 Ma 110 (12-14-2007)	2007 Ohio 6702	35
2005	State v. Moore	161 Ohio App. 3d 778	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 779 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 Cheryl L. Waite on?: Cheryl L. Waite is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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29 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).