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 1985 / Served to 2004

Donna Bowman

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Donna Bowman was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2004 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Toledo

Judicial Record

In our data, Bowman authored 245 published opinions for the court (1987–2009), plus 8 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: City of Columbus v. Hodge (215 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 Bowman 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
1987	City of Columbus v. Hodge	523 N.E.2d 515	215
1999	Peterson v. Buckeye Steel Casings	729 N.E.2d 813	110
1992	Bleicher v. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	604 N.E.2d 783	98
1996	Schultz v. Schultz	675 N.E.2d 55	76
1990	Fairview General Hospital v. Fletcher	591 N.E.2d 1312	56
1996	Brooks v. Ohio State University	676 N.E.2d 162	54
1999	Sweitzer v. Outlet Communications, Inc.	726 N.E.2d 1084	51
1991	Jeanne v. Hawkes Hosp. of Mt. Carmel	598 N.E.2d 1174	51
1992	State v. Smith	593 N.E.2d 402	49
1988	Thomas v. Thomas	540 N.E.2d 745	49
1996	State v. Grinnell	678 N.E.2d 231	45
1993	State v. Rowe	637 N.E.2d 29	40
1992	In Re Ghali	615 N.E.2d 268	40
1988	Thomas v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction	548 N.E.2d 991	40
1993	McGee v. Ohio State Board of Psychology	611 N.E.2d 902	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 257 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 Donna Bowman on?: Donna Bowman was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).