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 2004 / Served to 2012

Judith L. French

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Judith L. French was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004–2012 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, French authored 216 published opinions for the court (2004–2012), plus 11 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Morrow v. Reminger & Reminger Co. (162 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. 39 of these were attributed to French 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
2009	Morrow v. Reminger & Reminger Co.†	183 Ohio App. 3d 40	162
2011	Zurz v. 770 West Broad Aga, L.L.C.†	192 Ohio App. 3d 521	109
2009	White v. Westfall†	183 Ohio App. 3d 807	108
2007	State v. Burton, 06ap-690 (4-24-2007)	2007 Ohio 1941	74
2005	Groza-Vance v. Vance	834 N.E.2d 15	69
2005	EMC Mortgage Corp. v. Jenkins	841 N.E.2d 855	50
2011	Costner Consulting Co. v. U.S. Bancorp†	195 Ohio App. 3d 477	48
2009	State v. Saleh, 07ap-431 (3-31-2009)	2009 Ohio 1542	48
2006	State v. Brown	854 N.E.2d 583	41
2007	O'Brien v. Ohio State University, 06ap-946 (9-20-2007)· Dissent	2007 Ohio 4833	38
2010	City of Riverside v. State†	190 Ohio App. 3d 765	36
2010	Morris v. Morris†	189 Ohio App. 3d 608	33
2008	State v. Hall	903 N.E.2d 676	32
2007	State Ex Rel. Davis v. Public Employees Retirement Board	174 Ohio App. 3d 135	30
2009	State v. Loving	180 Ohio App. 3d 424	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 237 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 Judith L. French on?: Judith L. French was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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8 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).