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 1998 / Active

Donna J. Carr

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Donna J. Carr is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carr authored 1,105 published opinions for the court (1998–2026), plus 57 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Bowen v. Bowen (179 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. 29 of these were attributed to Carr 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
1999	Bowen v. Bowen	725 N.E.2d 1165	179
2001	City of Akron v. Frazier	756 N.E.2d 1258	79
2008	In Re B. G., 24187 (9-30-2008)	2008 Ohio 5003	78
2020	State v. Gannon	2020 Ohio 3075	53
2007	Huntington National Bank v. Chappell	915 N.E.2d 665	38
2007	State v. Goodwin, 23337 (5-16-2007)· Dissent	2007 Ohio 2343	37
2003	State v. Booth	784 N.E.2d 1259	35
1999	State v. Maynard	726 N.E.2d 574	33
2017	In re R.H.· Dissent†	2017 Ohio 7852	32
2011	State v. Pleban	2011 Ohio 3254	32
2012	Zemla v. Zemla	2012 Ohio 2829	30
2008	State v. White· Concurrence	886 N.E.2d 904	30
2013	State v. Hill	2013 Ohio 4022	26
2013	State v. Boone	2013 Ohio 2664	25
2013	State v. Daniels	2013 Ohio 358	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,178 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 Donna J. Carr on?: Donna J. Carr is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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28 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).