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 2009 / Served to 2015

Eve V. Belfance

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Eve V. Belfance was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009–2015 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Belfance authored 393 published opinions for the court (2009–2015), plus 3 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Bajzer v. Bajzer (32 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. 19 of these were attributed to Belfance 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
2012	Bajzer v. Bajzer	2012 Ohio 252	32
2009	Moss v. Lorain County Board of Mental Retardation†	185 Ohio App. 3d 395	32
2014	In re R.L.	2014 Ohio 3117	29
2010	State v. Raber· Concurrence†	189 Ohio App. 3d 396	29
2011	Smith v. Ray Esser & Sons, Inc.	2011 Ohio 1529	28
2010	In re J.C.†	186 Ohio App. 3d 243	28
2013	R.C. v. J.G.	2013 Ohio 4265	26
2012	Sypherd v. Sypherd	2012 Ohio 2615	23
2011	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Witta	2011 Ohio 6068	22
2011	In re A.W.	2011 Ohio 4490	22
2013	BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. v. McFerren	2013 Ohio 3228	20
2012	Neura v. Goodwill	2012 Ohio 2351	20
2015	Thomas v. Bauschlinger	2015 Ohio 281	19
2013	A.S. v. P.F.	2013 Ohio 4857	19
2013	State v. Harmon	2013 Ohio 2319	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 403 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 Eve V. Belfance on?: Eve V. Belfance was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).