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 2011 / Active

Julia L. Dorrian

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Julia L. Dorrian is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dorrian authored 547 published opinions for the court (2011–2026), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. Nyamusevya v. Hawkins (50 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 Dorrian 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 ex rel. Nyamusevya v. Hawkins	2020 Ohio 2690	50
2019	Premiere Radio Networks, Inc. v. Sandblast, L.P.	2019 Ohio 4015	50
2014	State v. Noor	2014 Ohio 3397	37
2011	Meyer v. Chieffo†	193 Ohio App. 3d 51	35
2015	Briscoe v. U.S. Restoration & Remodeling, Inc.	2015 Ohio 3567	33
2017	State v. Williams	2017 Ohio 5598	30
2013	Bank of Am., N.A. v. Pasqualone	2013 Ohio 5795	30
2015	State v. Jackson	2015 Ohio 3322	29
2014	State v. Ibrahim	2014 Ohio 5307	29
2017	James v. My Cute Car, L.L.C.	2017 Ohio 1291	25
2015	State v. Booker	2015 Ohio 5118	25
2014	State v. Johnson	2014 Ohio 671	25
2018	In re L.W.	2018 Ohio 2099	24
2014	Morgan v. Ohio State Univ. College of Dentistry	2014 Ohio 1846	24
2014	Wolf-Sabatino v. Sabatino	2014 Ohio 1252	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 549 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 Julia L. Dorrian on?: Julia L. Dorrian is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).