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 1997 / Active

Mark L. Pietrykowski

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Mark L. Pietrykowski is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pietrykowski authored 606 published opinions for the court (1999–2023), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. Benton (79 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. 27 of these were attributed to Pietrykowski 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	State v. Benton	737 N.E.2d 1046	79
2010	State v. Prescott†	190 Ohio App. 3d 702	44
2007	State v. Witcher, L-06-1039 (8-3-2007)	2007 Ohio 3960	34
2016	State v. Farless	2016 Ohio 1571	28
2004	Small v. Hcf of Perrysburg, Inc.	823 N.E.2d 19	27
2019	State v. Wymer	2019 Ohio 1563	26
2004	Krause v. Spartan Stores, Inc.	815 N.E.2d 696	23
2017	David v. Matter	2017 Ohio 7351	22
2006	State v. Jackson	169 Ohio App. 3d 440	22
2004	Reinbolt v. Natl. Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford	158 Ohio App. 3d 453	21
2017	In re Estate of Flowers	2017 Ohio 1310	20
2005	State v. Pitts	825 N.E.2d 695	18
2001	State v. Roberts	752 N.E.2d 331	18
2018	In re B.H.	2018 Ohio 1238	15
2021	State v. Acosta	2021 Ohio 757	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 607 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 Mark L. Pietrykowski on?: Mark L. Pietrykowski is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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29 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).