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 2004 / Served to 2007

Edna J. Boyle

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Edna J. Boyle was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004–2007 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boyle authored 4 published opinions for the court (2006). Most cited: Wilburn v. Wilburn (24 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. 4 of these were attributed to Boyle 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
2006	Wilburn v. Wilburn†	169 Ohio App. 3d 415	24
2006	Witschey v. Medina County Board of Commissioners†	169 Ohio App. 3d 214	9
2006	Jones v. Progressive Preferred Insurance†	169 Ohio App. 3d 291	8
2006	Proctor v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission†	169 Ohio App. 3d 527	7

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 Edna J. Boyle on?: Edna J. Boyle was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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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).