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 1993 / Served to 1999

Marianna Brown Bettman

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Marianna Brown Bettman was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–1999 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bettman authored 81 published opinions for the court (1977–1999), plus 12 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Cook v. City of Cincinnati (127 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. 1 of these was attributed to Bettman 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
1995	Cook v. City of Cincinnati	658 N.E.2d 814	127
1994	State v. Moore	651 N.E.2d 1319	118
1995	Walther v. Walther	657 N.E.2d 332	100
1998	State v. Echols· Concurrence	128 Ohio App. 3d 677	95
1978	City of Cincinnati v. Clardy	385 N.E.2d 1342	70
1996	State v. Collie	671 N.E.2d 338	51
1997	Clark v. Doe	695 N.E.2d 276	42
1995	Welch Sand & Gravel, Inc. v. O & K Trojan, Inc.	668 N.E.2d 529	41
1995	State v. Napier	664 N.E.2d 1330	39
1997	In Re Howard	695 N.E.2d 1	38
1995	Greenwood v. Taft, Stettinius & Hollister	663 N.E.2d 1030	37
1994	State v. Chapman	647 N.E.2d 504	37
1998	Sohi v. Ohio State Dental Board	720 N.E.2d 187	34
1996	State v. Moore	675 N.E.2d 13	30
1993	Kurzner v. Sanders	627 N.E.2d 564	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 105 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 Marianna Brown Bettman on?: Marianna Brown Bettman was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).