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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1995 / Served to 2009

Lynn C. Slaby

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Lynn C. Slaby was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2009 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Slaby authored 132 published opinions for the court (1995–2009), plus 21 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Brumback (110 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. 2 of these were attributed to Slaby 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
1996	State v. Brumback	671 N.E.2d 1064	110
2001	City of Akron v. Frazier· Dissent	756 N.E.2d 1258	79
1996	Pawlus v. Bartrug	673 N.E.2d 188	68
1995	Piro v. Franklin Township	656 N.E.2d 1035	64
1995	Georgeoff v. O'Brien	663 N.E.2d 1348	60
2004	Featherstone v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Smith, Inc.	822 N.E.2d 841	58
1996	Durgan v. Ohio Bureau of Employment Services	674 N.E.2d 1208	56
1997	Mottice v. Mottice	693 N.E.2d 1179	55
2002	Ferraro v. B.F. Goodrich Company· Dissent	777 N.E.2d 282	53
1995	Hackathorn v. Preisse	663 N.E.2d 384	41
2006	McKinley v. Brandt Construction, Inc.	168 Ohio App. 3d 214	37
1995	Springfield Local School District Board of Education v. Ohio Ass'n of Public School Employees, Local 530	667 N.E.2d 458	34
2002	State v. Stallings	778 N.E.2d 1110	32
1996	Black v. Cosentino	689 N.E.2d 1001	32
1996	State v. Edsall	680 N.E.2d 1256	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 169 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 Lynn C. Slaby on?: Lynn C. Slaby was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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14 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).