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 1993 / Active

Gene Donofrio

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Gene Donofrio is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Donofrio authored 823 published opinions for the court (1973–2023), plus 10 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Winand (166 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. 9 of these were attributed to Donofrio 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
1996	State v. Winand	688 N.E.2d 9	166
2002	State v. Hodge· Dissent	771 N.E.2d 331	70
2003	Douglass v. Salem Community Hospital	794 N.E.2d 107	65
1995	State v. Shuttlesworth	661 N.E.2d 817	60
2001	State v. High· Concurrence	757 N.E.2d 1176	58
2000	Chirchiglia v. Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation	742 N.E.2d 180	46
1996	State v. Trummer· Concurrence	683 N.E.2d 392	46
2001	Northeast Ohio College of Massotherapy v. Burek	759 N.E.2d 869	36
1997	Titanium Industries v. S.E.A., Inc.	691 N.E.2d 1087	35
1994	State v. Drogi	645 N.E.2d 153	34
1986	State v. Blair	516 N.E.2d 240	34
1997	King v. Western Reserve Group	707 N.E.2d 947	31
2010	Swallie v. Rousenberg	2010 Ohio 4573	30
1996	Lovejoy v. Westfield National Insurance	688 N.E.2d 563	29
1976	Graziano v. Davis	361 N.E.2d 525	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 844 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 Gene Donofrio on?: Gene Donofrio is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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33 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).