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 1995 / Served to 2013

J Howard Sundermann

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

J Howard Sundermann was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2013 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sundermann authored 105 published opinions for the court (1995–2021), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Mathis (61 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. 11 of these were attributed to Sundermann 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
1999	State v. Mathis	730 N.E.2d 410	61
2002	State v. Beach	772 N.E.2d 677	44
2003	State v. Condon· Concurrence†	789 N.E.2d 696	42
1998	State v. Smith· Dissent	720 N.E.2d 149	38
1999	Brokamp v. Mercy Hospital Anderson	726 N.E.2d 594	37
1995	State v. Gregory· Dissent	670 N.E.2d 547	37
1995	Greenwood v. Taft, Stettinius & Hollister· Concurrence	663 N.E.2d 1030	37
2002	State v. Leach· Dissent	782 N.E.2d 631	34
2001	State v. Echols	765 N.E.2d 379	34
2005	State v. McIntosh	160 Ohio App. 3d 544	33
2002	Pflanz v. City of Cincinnati	778 N.E.2d 1073	32
1998	State v. Alfieri	724 N.E.2d 477	30
2012	State v. Jones	2012 Ohio 2075	27
2012	State v. Andrews	2012 Ohio 4664	22
2012	State v. Railey	2012 Ohio 4233	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 119 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 J Howard Sundermann on?: J Howard Sundermann was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).