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 1991 / Served to 1994

Deborah L. Cook

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Deborah L. Cook was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1994 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cook authored 120 published opinions for the court (1969–1994), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: McKay v. McKay (55 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1985	McKay v. McKay	493 N.E.2d 317	55
1994	Henderson v. Spring Run Allotment· Dissent	651 N.E.2d 489	52
1993	Londrico v. Delores C. Knowlton, Inc.	623 N.E.2d 723	39
1986	State v. Garfield	518 N.E.2d 568	35
1993	Skidmore & Associates Co. L.P.A. v. Southerland	623 N.E.2d 1259	34
1994	Andonian v. A.C. & S., Inc.	647 N.E.2d 190	32
1994	McConville v. Jackson Comfort Systems, Inc.	642 N.E.2d 416	32
1993	Tersigni v. General Tire, Inc.	633 N.E.2d 1140	31
1986	Case Western Reserve University v. Friedman	515 N.E.2d 1004	30
1993	Sampson v. Hooper Holmes, Inc.	632 N.E.2d 1338	28
1985	State v. Orr	498 N.E.2d 181	27
1982	City of Worthington v. Ogilby	455 N.E.2d 1022	26
1983	Cain v. Cleveland Parachute Training Center	457 N.E.2d 1185	25
1983	Williams v. Hobbs	460 N.E.2d 287	24
1982	Vincenzo v. Vincenzo	441 N.E.2d 1139	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 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 Deborah L. Cook on?: Deborah L. Cook was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).