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 2001 / Served to 2011

Frank D. Celebrezze Jr.

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2011 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Celebrezze authored 747 published opinions for the court (1981–2024), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Thomas v. City of Cleveland (270 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. 15 of these were attributed to Celebrezze 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
2008	Thomas v. City of Cleveland	892 N.E.2d 454	270
2013	State v. A.H.	2013 Ohio 2525	114
2012	State v. Bradley	2012 Ohio 2765	92
2019	State v. Sheline	2019 Ohio 528	86
2012	Caskey v. Sanford-Brown College	2012 Ohio 1543	72
2002	Mitnaul v. Fairmount Presbyterian Church	778 N.E.2d 1093	64
2012	CitiMortgage, Inc. v. Patterson	2012 Ohio 5894	58
2003	State v. Purser	791 N.E.2d 1053	58
2009	State v. Preztak	907 N.E.2d 1254	55
2015	State v. Echols	2015 Ohio 5138	50
2014	State v. Quinones	2014 Ohio 5544	40
2017	Gateway Consultants Group, Inc. v. Premier Physicians Ctrs., Inc.	2017 Ohio 1443	38
2013	State v. Minifee	2013 Ohio 3146	38
2016	State v. Rudd	2016 Ohio 106	37
2014	State v. Lunder	2014 Ohio 5341	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 754 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 Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. on?: Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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10 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).