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 / Active

Larry A. Jones Sr.

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Larry A. Jones Sr. is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 688 published opinions for the court (1963–2021), plus 42 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Henkle v. Henkle (568 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. 14 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1991	Henkle v. Henkle· Concurrence	600 N.E.2d 791	568
2015	In re N.B.	2015 Ohio 314	142
1991	Jackson v. Butler County Board of County Commissioners	602 N.E.2d 363	115
1992	In Re Weaver	606 N.E.2d 1011	110
2013	State v. Hodges	2013 Ohio 5025	89
2017	In re L.D.	2017 Ohio 1037	80
1994	Weidner v. Blazic	648 N.E.2d 565	62
1993	State v. Elliott	621 N.E.2d 1272	55
2013	State v. Kurtz	2013 Ohio 2999	49
2011	State v. Schmick	2011 Ohio 2263	48
1992	State v. Lowman· Dissent	613 N.E.2d 692	48
1990	Wolf v. McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital· Dissent	586 N.E.2d 1204	47
2020	State v. Williams	2020 Ohio 269	42
1986	City of Hamilton v. Hamm	514 N.E.2d 942	42
1995	In Re Jenkins· Dissent	655 N.E.2d 238	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 752 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 Larry A. Jones Sr. on?: Larry A. Jones Sr. is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).