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 2009 / Served to 2015

John A. Connor

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

John A. Connor was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009–2015 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Connor authored 140 published opinions for the court (2009–2015). Most cited: State v. Monford (64 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. 23 of these were attributed to Connor 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
2010	State v. Monford†	190 Ohio App. 3d 35	64
2014	Foreman v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.	2014 Ohio 2793	50
2010	City of Columbus v. Aleshire†	187 Ohio App. 3d 660	48
2010	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Sessley†	188 Ohio App. 3d 213	37
2014	State v. Gullick	2014 Ohio 1642	36
2011	Franks v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction†	195 Ohio App. 3d 114	34
2014	Regions Bank v. Seimer	2014 Ohio 95	32
2013	Zhelezny v. Olesh	2013 Ohio 4337	31
2014	State v. Westover	2014 Ohio 1959	25
2009	Crace v. Kent State University†	185 Ohio App. 3d 534	25
2014	State v. Adams	2014 Ohio 1809	24
2010	Hershey v. Edelman†	187 Ohio App. 3d 400	23
2014	Chapa v. Genpak, L.L.C.	2014 Ohio 897	21
2013	State v. Watson	2013 Ohio 5603	21
2013	State v. Corker	2013 Ohio 5446	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 140 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 John A. Connor on?: John A. Connor was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).