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 2007 / Served to 2013

Clair E. Dickinson

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Clair E. Dickinson was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2007–2013 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dickinson authored 350 published opinions for the court (1993–2012), plus 13 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Gosden v. Louis (239 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. 25 of these were attributed to Dickinson 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	Gosden v. Louis	687 N.E.2d 481	239
1995	State v. Tichon	658 N.E.2d 16	193
1995	Hunt v. Marksman Products, Division of S/R Industries, Inc.	656 N.E.2d 726	132
1995	Pena v. Northeast Ohio Emergency Affiliates, Inc.	670 N.E.2d 268	102
1998	State v. Swiger	708 N.E.2d 1033	98
1997	Carlisle v. T & R Excavating, Inc.	704 N.E.2d 39	67
1996	State v. Feliciano	685 N.E.2d 1307	63
1994	Chandler v. Empire Chemical, Inc.	650 N.E.2d 950	63
1995	Lable & Co. v. Flowers	661 N.E.2d 782	61
1997	State v. Blonski· Dissent	707 N.E.2d 1168	59
1994	Perkins v. Lavin	648 N.E.2d 839	46
2007	Huntington National Bank v. Chappell· Concurrence	915 N.E.2d 665	38
2010	City of Akron v. Carter†	190 Ohio App. 3d 420	37
2007	State v. Goodwin, 23337 (5-16-2007)	2007 Ohio 2343	37
2008	State v. Salupo	894 N.E.2d 746	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 384 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 Clair E. Dickinson on?: Clair E. Dickinson was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).