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 1991

Joseph J. Cirigliano

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Joseph J. Cirigliano was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1991 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Cirigliano authored 31 published opinions for the court (1989–1991), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Wang v. Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. (19 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. 22 of these were attributed to Cirigliano 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
1990	Wang v. Goodyear Tire Rubber Co.	587 N.E.2d 387	19
1990	Finn v. Krumroy Construction Co.	589 N.E.2d 58	11
1989	State v. May	581 N.E.2d 1154	7
1990	Jost v. Burr	590 N.E.2d 828	6
1990	State v. Balas· Dissent	589 N.E.2d 86	6
1991	Bruno v. Struktol Co. of America	576 N.E.2d 821	4
1990	Campbell v. Gallimore	591 N.E.2d 1	1
1990	North Akron Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Rondy	589 N.E.2d 82	1
1990	Buck v. Jarnigan	587 N.E.2d 877	1
1990	State v. Giegel	591 N.E.2d 826	0
1990	State v. Fafrak†	8 Ohio App. Unrep. 453	0
1990	State v. Brown†	8 Ohio App. Unrep. 452	0
1990	State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. v. Counts†	8 Ohio App. Unrep. 448	0
1990	Falasco v. Bishop Motors, Inc.†	8 Ohio App. Unrep. 441	0
1990	Medina v. Townsend· Concurrence†	7 Ohio App. Unrep. 343	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 33 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 Joseph J. Cirigliano on?: Joseph J. Cirigliano was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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2 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).