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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 2005 / Served to 2011

Harvey Joel Bressler

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Harvey Joel Bressler was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bressler authored 158 published opinions for the court (2005–2013), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: State v. Jones (192 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. 12 of these were attributed to Bressler 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
2013	State v. Jones	2013 Ohio 150	192
2008	State v. Lawwill, Ca2007-01-014 (7-21-2008)	2008 Ohio 3592	30
2007	State v. Cummings, Ca2006-09-224 (9-24-2007)	2007 Ohio 4970	27
2009	State v. Sims, Ca2007-11-300 (2-9-2009)	2009 Ohio 550	25
2010	State v. Brown†	186 Ohio App. 3d 437	24
2007	State v. Carroll, Ca2007-02-030 (12-28-2007)	2007 Ohio 7075	22
2009	Uhl v. Thomas, Ca2008-06-131 (1-20-2009)	2009 Ohio 196	21
2008	State v. Cobb, Ca2007-06-153 (10-6-2008)	2008 Ohio 5210	20
2007	Ashburn v. Roth, Ca2006-03-054 (6-18-2007)	2007 Ohio 2995	20
2009	Brown v. Brown, Ca2008-08-021 (5-11-2009)· Dissent	2009 Ohio 2204	17
2008	State v. Clark, Ca2007-03-037 (10-6-2008)	2008 Ohio 5208	17
2010	Park National Bank v. Cattani, Inc.†	187 Ohio App. 3d 186	15
2009	Zollar v. Zollar, Ca2008-03-065 (3-9-2009)	2009 Ohio 1008	15
2007	In Re G.N.	170 Ohio App. 3d 76	15
2005	Wead v. Lutz	161 Ohio App. 3d 580	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 Harvey Joel Bressler on?: Harvey Joel Bressler was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).