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 2001 / Served to 2013

Colleen Conway Cooney

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Colleen Conway Cooney was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cooney authored 227 published opinions for the court (2001–2012), plus 26 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Thomas v. City of Cleveland (270 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 Cooney 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
2008	Thomas v. City of Cleveland· Dissent	892 N.E.2d 454	270
2005	State v. Lett	825 N.E.2d 1158	48
2004	Vanyo v. Clear Channel Worldwide· Concurrence	808 N.E.2d 482	48
2006	Orbit Electronics, Inc. v. Helm Instrument Co.	855 N.E.2d 91	45
2001	State v. Grimes	757 N.E.2d 413	42
2012	State v. Primeau	2012 Ohio 5172	38
2005	Wilson v. Harvey	164 Ohio App. 3d 278	38
2006	Automated Solutions Corp. v. Paragon Data Systems, Inc.· Concurrence	856 N.E.2d 1008	33
2007	State v. Tish, 88247 (4-19-2007)	2007 Ohio 1836	31
2001	State v. Bolton	757 N.E.2d 841	28
2010	Sampson v. Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority· Concurrence†	188 Ohio App. 3d 250	27
2003	Hoang v. Etrade Group, Inc.	784 N.E.2d 151	27
2008	Bates v. Postulate Investments, L.L.C.	892 N.E.2d 937	26
2012	State v. Frazier	2012 Ohio 1198	25
2002	Trangle v. Rojas	782 N.E.2d 617	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 262 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 Colleen Conway Cooney on?: Colleen Conway Cooney was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).