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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 2005 / Served to 2011

Christine T. McMonagle

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Christine T. McMonagle was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Northwestern University
Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, McMonagle authored 153 published opinions for the court (1974–2010), plus 12 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Kilroy v. B.H. Lakeshore Co. (174 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 McMonagle 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
1996	Kilroy v. B.H. Lakeshore Co.· Dissent	676 N.E.2d 171	174
2009	Hollins v. Shaffer· Concurrence	182 Ohio App. 3d 282	72
2003	Landskroner v. Landskroner	797 N.E.2d 1002	59
2006	City of Cleveland v. Welms	169 Ohio App. 3d 600	52
2001	State v. Gary	750 N.E.2d 640	51
2001	State v. Hollander	760 N.E.2d 929	49
2004	Vanyo v. Clear Channel Worldwide	808 N.E.2d 482	48
1997	Adelman v. Timman	690 N.E.2d 1332	48
2001	Ferreri v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co.	756 N.E.2d 712	47
2009	Ament v. Reassure America Life Insurance	180 Ohio App. 3d 440	43
2005	Shumaker v. Saks, Inc.	163 Ohio App. 3d 173	43
2005	Abuhamda-Sliman v. Sliman	161 Ohio App. 3d 541	41
1999	State v. Davis	728 N.E.2d 1111	37
1997	State v. Semenchuk	701 N.E.2d 19	36
1996	Neel v. Neel	680 N.E.2d 207	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 172 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 Christine T. McMonagle on?: Christine T. McMonagle was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).