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 1973 / Served to 1989

Edward J. Mahoney

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Edward J. Mahoney was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2004
Tenure: 1973–1989 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Akron Main Campus
Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mahoney authored 386 published opinions for the court (1972–1999), plus 20 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Otten (2,039 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. 2 of these were attributed to Mahoney 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
1986	State v. Otten	515 N.E.2d 1009	2,039
1996	Kremer v. Cox· Dissent	682 N.E.2d 1006	213
1993	State v. Swift· Dissent	621 N.E.2d 513	79
1982	State v. Flinn	455 N.E.2d 691	79
1975	Majnaric v. Majnaric	347 N.E.2d 552	78
1991	State v. Sklenar	594 N.E.2d 88	66
1973	State v. Moore	353 N.E.2d 866	59
1993	Lippy v. Society National Bank	623 N.E.2d 108	55
1991	State v. Garrett	600 N.E.2d 1130	53
1988	BancOhio National Bank v. Schiesswohl	554 N.E.2d 1362	50
1982	Brown v. Johnstone	450 N.E.2d 693	50
1985	City of Akron v. Milewski	487 N.E.2d 582	46
1976	State v. Haag	360 N.E.2d 756	45
1986	City of Akron v. Dokes	507 N.E.2d 1158	44
1977	Epling v. Pacific Intermountain Express Co.	379 N.E.2d 239	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 421 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 Edward J. Mahoney on?: Edward J. Mahoney was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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16 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).