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 2001 / Served to 2013

James J. Sweeney

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

James J. Sweeney was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sweeney authored 260 published opinions for the court (2000–2012), plus 8 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lett (79 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. 16 of these were attributed to Sweeney 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
2005	State v. Lett· Dissent	829 N.E.2d 1281	79
2002	Ekstrom v. Cuyahoga County Community College	779 N.E.2d 1067	69
2001	Carney v. Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District	758 N.E.2d 234	43
2012	State v. Driggins	2012 Ohio 5287	38
2001	State v. Bryson	755 N.E.2d 964	36
2000	Radovanic v. Cossler	746 N.E.2d 1184	25
2001	Haberley v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance	755 N.E.2d 455	23
2012	State ex rel. Morabito v. Cleveland	2012 Ohio 6012	21
2004	Association of Cleveland Fire Fighters, Local 93 v. City of Cleveland· Dissent	806 N.E.2d 170	21
2011	State v. Smith	2011 Ohio 3051	20
2007	Mendlovic v. Life Line Screening of America, Ltd.	173 Ohio App. 3d 46	20
2012	State v. May	2012 Ohio 5504	18
2012	State v. Glenn	2012 Ohio 1530	18
2002	Surry v. Cuyahoga Community College	778 N.E.2d 91	18
2002	Sinoff v. Ohio Permanente Medical Group, Inc.	767 N.E.2d 1251	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 276 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 J. Sweeney on?: James J. Sweeney was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).