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 2003 / Active

Cynthia Wescott Rice

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Cynthia Wescott Rice is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rice authored 832 published opinions for the court (2003–2022), plus 17 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Underwood, 2008-L-113 (5-1-2009) (121 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 Rice 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
2009	State v. Underwood, 2008-L-113 (5-1-2009)	2009 Ohio 2089	121
2014	Tennant v. Gallick	2014 Ohio 477	77
2008	State v. Delmanzo, 2007-L-218 (11-3-2008)	2008 Ohio 5856	66
2013	In re J.H.	2013 Ohio 1293	47
2007	State v. Kist	173 Ohio App. 3d 158	43
2008	State v. Troisi†	179 Ohio App. 3d 326	42
2021	State v. Shannon	2021 Ohio 789	40
2013	Meloy v. Circle K Store	2013 Ohio 2837	35
2003	State v. Hummel	796 N.E.2d 558	35
2014	State v. Payne	2014 Ohio 4304	31
2009	Frano v. Red Robin International, Inc.	907 N.E.2d 796	27
2003	Matter of Stillman	801 N.E.2d 475	27
2006	In Re Sullivan	855 N.E.2d 554	25
2008	State v. McKinney, 2007-T-0004 (6-27-2008)	2008 Ohio 3256	23
2007	State v. Kalish, 2006-L-093 (7-27-2007)	2007 Ohio 3850	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 853 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 Cynthia Wescott Rice on?: Cynthia Wescott Rice is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).