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 / Active

John Francis Boggins

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

John Francis Boggins is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Boggins authored 14 published opinions for the court (2002–2007), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Turner (30 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2006	State v. Turner	168 Ohio App. 3d 176	30
2005	Dexxon Digital Storage, Inc. v. Haenszel	161 Ohio App. 3d 747	13
2006	Godwin v. Erb	856 N.E.2d 321	12
2005	Phillis v. Phillis	164 Ohio App. 3d 364	12
2005	Lewis v. Delaware County Joint Vocational School District	829 N.E.2d 697	12
2003	Funk v. Durant	799 N.E.2d 221	10
2006	In Re Colaner Children	850 N.E.2d 794	7
2005	Fire v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services	163 Ohio App. 3d 392	5
2004	True Light Christian Ministries Church v. Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc.	809 N.E.2d 1198	4
2007	State v. Counts	170 Ohio App. 3d 339	3
2005	State v. Harrison	161 Ohio App. 3d 573	3
2006	Stinchcomb v. Mammone	849 N.E.2d 54	2
2005	State v. Bowers· Concurrence	829 N.E.2d 755	1
2006	Belle v. Carr	169 Ohio App. 3d 286	0
2005	Baldwin v. Golden Hawk Transportation Co.	827 N.E.2d 780	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 John Francis Boggins on?: John Francis Boggins is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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25 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).