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 1997 / Served to 2015

Joseph J. Vukovich

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Joseph J. Vukovich was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2015 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vukovich authored 496 published opinions for the court (1997–2014), plus 12 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gore (357 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. 10 of these were attributed to Vukovich 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
1999	State v. Gore	722 N.E.2d 125	357
1998	State v. Lloyd	709 N.E.2d 913	158
2001	In the Matter of Nice	751 N.E.2d 552	151
2002	In Re Starkey	782 N.E.2d 665	100
2001	State v. Griffin	752 N.E.2d 310	92
2000	State v. Cuthbertson	746 N.E.2d 197	90
2013	State v. Power	2013 Ohio 4254	70
1999	State v. Glasure	724 N.E.2d 1165	70
2007	State v. Donkers	170 Ohio App. 3d 509	64
2005	Park v. Acierno	826 N.E.2d 324	59
2002	Yo-Can, Inc. v. Yogurt Exchange, Inc.	778 N.E.2d 80	58
2001	State v. High· Dissent	757 N.E.2d 1176	58
2003	State v. Ali	797 N.E.2d 1019	47
2004	Solomon v. Solomon	813 N.E.2d 918	46
2014	State v. Johnson	2014 Ohio 1226	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 515 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. Vukovich on?: Joseph J. Vukovich was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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18 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).