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 2009 / Served to 2011

Keila D. Cosme

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Keila D. Cosme was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009–2011 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cosme authored 10 published opinions for the court (2010–2011). Most cited: City of Toledo v. Schmiedebusch (14 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 Cosme 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
2011	City of Toledo v. Schmiedebusch†	192 Ohio App. 3d 402	14
2011	Seiler v. City of Norwalk†	192 Ohio App. 3d 331	11
2010	State v. Jones†	187 Ohio App. 3d 478	11
2010	Citibank (South Dakota), N.A. v. Perz†	191 Ohio App. 3d 575	10
2011	State v. Conner†	192 Ohio App. 3d 166	6
2010	Klem v. Consolidated Rail Corp.†	191 Ohio App. 3d 690	4
2010	In re K.H.†	191 Ohio App. 3d 251	2
2010	Fenikile v. Powell†	190 Ohio App. 3d 452	1
2010	State v. Packer†	188 Ohio App. 3d 162	1
2010	Weickert v. Bowden†	188 Ohio App. 3d 730	0

Showing the 10 most-cited of 10 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 Keila D. Cosme on?: Keila D. Cosme was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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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).