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 1994 / Active

Jeffrey E. Froelich

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Jeffrey E. Froelich is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Froelich authored 857 published opinions for the court (2009–2021), plus 7 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: State v. King (175 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. 49 of these were attributed to Froelich 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. King	2013 Ohio 2021	175
2013	Schroeder v. Henness	2013 Ohio 2767	113
2014	State v. Adams	2014 Ohio 3432	99
2015	Ward v. Bond	2015 Ohio 4297	61
2017	State v. Fields	2017 Ohio 400	60
2013	State v. Renner	2013 Ohio 5463	59
2010	State v. Hatten†	186 Ohio App. 3d 286	50
2012	State v. Jackson	2012 Ohio 2335	45
2017	State v. Huffman	2017 Ohio 4097	44
2011	In re L.C.	2011 Ohio 2066	43
2016	State v. Frazier	2016 Ohio 727	38
2011	State v. Russell	2011 Ohio 1738	36
2010	State v. Marshall†	191 Ohio App. 3d 444	35
2011	State v. Nichols	2011 Ohio 4671	34
2012	State v. Rucker	2012 Ohio 4860	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 880 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 Jeffrey E. Froelich on?: Jeffrey E. Froelich is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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32 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).