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 1981 / Served to 2011

James A. Brogan

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

James A. Brogan was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–2011 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brogan authored 660 published opinions for the court (1981–2023), plus 14 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Retherford (658 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. 56 of these were attributed to Brogan 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
1994	State v. Retherford	639 N.E.2d 498	658
1994	Doner v. Snapp	649 N.E.2d 42	249
1991	State v. Barnett· Concurrence	596 N.E.2d 1101	235
1998	Nilavar v. Osborn	711 N.E.2d 726	191
2000	Schafer v. Rms Realty	741 N.E.2d 155	157
2003	Pacher v. Invisible Fence of Dayton	798 N.E.2d 1121	128
1986	State v. Williams	516 N.E.2d 1270	119
1990	State v. Jones	591 N.E.2d 810	117
2010	State v. Bowser†	186 Ohio App. 3d 162	106
1982	Jenkins v. Clark	454 N.E.2d 541	100
1994	Stockhauser v. Archdiocese of Cincinnati	646 N.E.2d 198	84
1992	State v. Smith· Dissent	617 N.E.2d 1160	78
2007	State v. McConnell	170 Ohio App. 3d 800	69
1992	Flint v. Holbrook	608 N.E.2d 809	68
1987	Campco Distributors, Inc. v. Fries	537 N.E.2d 661	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 680 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 James A. Brogan on?: James A. Brogan was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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30 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).