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 2003 / Active

Lisa L. Sadler

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Lisa L. Sadler is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sadler authored 585 published opinions for the court (2003–2022), plus 22 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Harris (126 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. 39 of these were attributed to Sadler 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
2014	State v. Harris	2014 Ohio 2501	126
2014	Byrd v. Arbors E. & Subacute Rehab. Ctr.	2014 Ohio 3935	55
2007	State v. Berry, 06ap-803 (5-10-2007)	2007 Ohio 2244	53
2014	State v. Phillips	2014 Ohio 5162	50
2018	State v. Shine-Johnson	2018 Ohio 3347	48
2013	Stanley v. Ohio State Univ. Med. Ctr.	2013 Ohio 5140	44
2017	State v. Kane	2017 Ohio 7838	42
2018	State v. Kurtz	2018 Ohio 3942	37
2014	State v. Jones	2014 Ohio 3740	37
2013	State v. Hunt	2013 Ohio 5326	37
2007	In Re J.W.· Dissent	870 N.E.2d 245	36
2003	Benjamin v. Pipoly	800 N.E.2d 50	33
2008	Stonehenge Land Co. v. Beazer Homes Investments, L.L.C.	893 N.E.2d 855	32
2016	Gilson v. Am. Inst. of Alternative Medicine	2016 Ohio 1324	31
2016	State v. G.C.	2016 Ohio 717	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 625 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 Lisa L. Sadler on?: Lisa L. Sadler is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).