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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 2004 / Served to 2011

Colleen Mary O'Toole

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Colleen Mary O'Toole was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004–2011 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Toole authored 15 published opinions for the court (2005–2009), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: National City Bank v. Rini (47 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. 22 of these were attributed to O'Toole 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
2005	National City Bank v. Rini†	834 N.E.2d 836	47
2007	State v. Holin· Dissent†	174 Ohio App. 3d 1	37
2008	State v. Hill· Dissent†	894 N.E.2d 108	26
2005	State v. Spellman†	160 Ohio App. 3d 718	23
2006	In Re Sheffey†	854 N.E.2d 508	21
2006	JRC Holdings, Inc. v. Samsel Services Co.†	850 N.E.2d 773	19
2005	Derrit v. Derrit†	163 Ohio App. 3d 52	19
2008	State v. Chrzanowski· Dissent†	180 Ohio App. 3d 324	10
2008	In Re Savchuk Children· Dissent†	180 Ohio App. 3d 349	10
2007	Drake Construction Co. v. Kemper House Mentor, Inc.†	170 Ohio App. 3d 19	9
2007	Foster v. Wickliffe†	888 N.E.2d 422	7
2009	In Re B.M.· Dissent†	910 N.E.2d 46	6
2008	Sharp v. Cleveland Clinic· Dissent†	891 N.E.2d 809	6
2007	LaNeve v. Atlas Recycling, Inc.†	872 N.E.2d 1277	6
2005	State v. Combs†	834 N.E.2d 869	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Mary O'Toole on?: Colleen Mary O'Toole was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).