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 1995 / Active

John W. Wise

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

John W. Wise is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wise authored 1,974 published opinions for the court (1984–2025), plus 11 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wolfe (70 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. 19 of these were attributed to Wise 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
2020	State v. Wolfe	2020 Ohio 5501	70
2010	Tennant v. Martin-Auer†	188 Ohio App. 3d 768	65
2003	State v. Demastry	799 N.E.2d 229	58
2021	State v. Morris	2021 Ohio 2646	46
1997	Kilbarger v. Anchor Hocking Glass Co.	697 N.E.2d 1080	46
2020	State v. Roberts	2020 Ohio 6722	45
2018	State v. Miku	2018 Ohio 1584	42
1997	Peterman v. Village of Pataskala†	702 N.E.2d 965	38
1987	In Re Pitts	525 N.E.2d 814	34
2002	Kramer v. Installations Unlimited, Inc.	770 N.E.2d 632	27
2008	State v. Tate, 07 Ca 55 (7-23-2008)	2008 Ohio 3759	26
2021	In re L.G.	2021 Ohio 743	23
2021	State v. Romy	168 N.E.3d 86	23
2012	In re A.L.	2012 Ohio 481	23
2016	State v. Larry	2016 Ohio 829	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,994 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 W. Wise on?: John W. Wise is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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31 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).