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 1983 / Served to 1989

Joyce J. George

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Joyce J. George was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1989 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, George authored 189 published opinions for the court (1983–2007), plus 11 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hunt (136 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1984	State v. Hunt	486 N.E.2d 108	136
1987	In Re Dissolution of Marriage of Seders	536 N.E.2d 1190	87
1988	State v. Vrona· Concurrence	547 N.E.2d 1189	82
1987	Russo v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.	521 N.E.2d 1116	76
1985	Buckeye Supply Co. v. Northeast Drilling Co.	493 N.E.2d 964	66
1988	State v. Greulich	572 N.E.2d 132	65
1984	State v. Cassidy	487 N.E.2d 322	53
1987	State v. Ellington	521 N.E.2d 504	48
1983	State v. Dunkins	460 N.E.2d 688	47
1989	State, Ex Rel. Zauderer v. Joseph	577 N.E.2d 444	46
1986	State v. Nagel	506 N.E.2d 285	46
1985	Vanasdal v. Brinker	500 N.E.2d 876	43
1983	Messmore v. Monarch Machine Tool Co.	463 N.E.2d 108	38
1985	Stevens v. Kiraly	494 N.E.2d 1160	37
1983	City of Avon Lake v. Anderson	462 N.E.2d 188	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 212 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 Joyce J. George on?: Joyce J. George was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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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).