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 1985 / Served to 2015

Lee H. Hildebrandt Jr.

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Lee H. Hildebrandt Jr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2015 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hildebrandt authored 247 published opinions for the court (1970–2018), plus 33 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Procter Gamble Company v. Stoneham (144 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 Hildebrandt 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
2000	Procter Gamble Company v. Stoneham	747 N.E.2d 268	144
2005	State v. Montgomery	825 N.E.2d 250	76
1995	Atkinson v. International Technegroup, Inc.	666 N.E.2d 257	73
1997	Chapman v. Adia Services, Inc.· Concurrence	688 N.E.2d 604	52
1994	State v. Hart· Concurrence	641 N.E.2d 755	50
2001	State v. McNeil	765 N.E.2d 881	49
2000	State v. Freeman· Dissent	741 N.E.2d 566	47
2004	State v. Frazier	815 N.E.2d 1155	44
2001	Reedy v. Cincinnati Bengals, Inc.	758 N.E.2d 678	44
1998	Wille v. Hunkar Laboratories, Inc.	724 N.E.2d 492	43
1997	In Re Howard· Concurrence	695 N.E.2d 1	38
1997	Nadel v. Burger King Corp.· Dissent	695 N.E.2d 1185	34
1995	State v. Jenkins	661 N.E.2d 806	34
1998	Sammarco v. Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc.	723 N.E.2d 128	33
1995	State v. Warren	667 N.E.2d 68	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 295 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 Lee H. Hildebrandt Jr. on?: Lee H. Hildebrandt Jr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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30 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).