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

Kenneth A. Rocco

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Kenneth A. Rocco 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, Rocco authored 394 published opinions for the court (1997–2015), plus 24 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v. Najar (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. 17 of these were attributed to Rocco 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
2013	Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v. Najar	2013 Ohio 1657	136
2014	State v. Williams	2014 Ohio 3415	66
1997	Chandler & Associates, Inc. v. America's Healthcare Alliance, Inc.	709 N.E.2d 190	53
2008	Northpoint Properties, Inc. v. Petticord· Concurrence†	179 Ohio App. 3d 342	52
2012	Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. v. Unger	2012 Ohio 1950	49
2000	State v. Virasayachack	741 N.E.2d 943	49
2000	Lightbody v. Rust· Dissent	739 N.E.2d 840	36
1998	Kraft Construction Co. v. Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners· Dissent	713 N.E.2d 1075	36
2001	State v. Corbin	751 N.E.2d 505	35
2014	San Allen, Inc. v. Buehrer	2014 Ohio 2071	34
2014	State v. Hill	2014 Ohio 387	33
2001	Jeffrey Mining Products, L.P. v. Left Fork Mining Co.	758 N.E.2d 1173	31
1999	State v. Thompson	748 N.E.2d 1144	31
2000	Boedeker v. Rogers· Dissent	746 N.E.2d 625	29
2005	Ayers v. R.A. Murphy Co.	163 Ohio App. 3d 497	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 425 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 Kenneth A. Rocco on?: Kenneth A. Rocco was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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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).