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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1987 / Active

George Gary Tyack

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

George Gary Tyack is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1987 · 39 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tyack authored 562 published opinions for the court (1986–2019), plus 67 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Wiltberger v. Davis (164 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. 31 of these were attributed to Tyack 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	Wiltberger v. Davis	673 N.E.2d 628	164
1999	McConnell v. Hunt Sports Enterprises	725 N.E.2d 1193	124
1995	City of Columbus v. Henry	664 N.E.2d 622	92
2000	Federated Management Co. v. Coopers & Lybrand	738 N.E.2d 842	77
1993	Smith v. John Deere Co.	614 N.E.2d 1148	72
1998	Steinfels v. Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Securities	129 Ohio App. 3d 800	55
1992	Eichenberger v. Eichenberger	613 N.E.2d 678	55
1992	Pawlowski v. Pawlowski	615 N.E.2d 1071	53
2018	State v. Shine-Johnson· Dissent†	2018 Ohio 3347	48
2017	State v. Armengau· Dissent†	2017 Ohio 4452	45
1998	State v. Scudder· Dissent	722 N.E.2d 1054	43
2002	Hansel v. Creative Concrete & Masonry Construction Co.	772 N.E.2d 138	42
2000	State v. Shoaf· Dissent	746 N.E.2d 674	42
1998	Central Ohio Transit Authority v. Timson	724 N.E.2d 458	39
2007	O'Brien v. Ohio State University, 06ap-946 (9-20-2007)	2007 Ohio 4833	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 644 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 George Gary Tyack on?: George Gary Tyack is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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39 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).