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 1989 / Served to 1998

John W. Reece

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

John W. Reece was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1998 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reece authored 270 published opinions for the court (1983–2007), plus 19 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Coventry Township v. Ecker (454 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. 15 of these were attributed to Reece 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
1995	Coventry Township v. Ecker	654 N.E.2d 1327	454
1990	Parenti v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.	586 N.E.2d 1121	277
1996	Textron Financial Corp. v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance	684 N.E.2d 1261	267
1995	State v. Carlson	657 N.E.2d 591	265
1996	Gosden v. Louis· Dissent	687 N.E.2d 481	239
1993	Wozniak v. Wozniak	629 N.E.2d 500	212
1992	McKay v. Cutlip	609 N.E.2d 1272	211
1992	Akron-Canton Waste Oil, Inc. v. Safety-Kleen Oil Services, Inc.	611 N.E.2d 955	157
1991	State v. Cobb	610 N.E.2d 1009	135
1992	Ceol v. Zion Industries, Inc.	610 N.E.2d 1076	124
1992	Babka v. Babka	615 N.E.2d 247	98
1995	State v. Messer	667 N.E.2d 1022	97
1993	Whiston v. Bio-Lab, Inc.	619 N.E.2d 1047	90
1997	Christe v. GMS Management Co.	705 N.E.2d 691	83
1994	Gawloski v. Miller Brewing Co.	644 N.E.2d 731	81

Showing the 15 most-cited of 292 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 W. Reece on?: John W. Reece was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

9 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).