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 / Active

Diane V. Grendell

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Diane V. Grendell is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Grendell authored 536 published opinions for the court (2001–2019), plus 62 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Arcaro (62 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. 20 of these were attributed to Grendell 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
2013	State v. Arcaro	2013 Ohio 1842	62
2004	State v. Taylor	821 N.E.2d 192	52
2001	State v. Young· Dissent	765 N.E.2d 938	52
2005	National City Bank v. Rini· Dissent	834 N.E.2d 836	47
2007	State v. Holin	174 Ohio App. 3d 1	37
2004	Hurst v. Enterprise Title Agency, Inc.	809 N.E.2d 689	34
2007	State v. Bengal, 2006-L-123 (6-1-2007)	2006 Ohio 4061	33
2009	Tally v. Patrick, 2008-T-0072 (4-17-2009)	2009 Ohio 1831	28
2007	State v. Butcher· Dissent	170 Ohio App. 3d 52	28
2008	State v. Hill	894 N.E.2d 108	26
2006	State v. Brown	850 N.E.2d 116	24
2006	State v. Brown· Dissent	852 N.E.2d 1228	24
2006	DiSanto v. Safeco Insurance of America	168 Ohio App. 3d 649	23
2005	State v. McAdams	162 Ohio App. 3d 318	22
2002	State v. Dalpiaz· Dissent	783 N.E.2d 976	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 613 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 Diane V. Grendell on?: Diane V. Grendell is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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25 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).