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 2007 / Active

Mary J. Boyle

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Mary J. Boyle is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boyle authored 792 published opinions for the court (2008–2026), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Whitsett (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. 20 of these were attributed to Boyle 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. Whitsett	2014 Ohio 4933	110
2013	State v. Goins	2013 Ohio 263	45
2012	Brownlee v. Cleveland Clinic Found.	2012 Ohio 2212	38
2016	State v. Johnson	2016 Ohio 1536	37
2013	State v. Mannarino	2013 Ohio 1795	36
2014	State v. Orr	2014 Ohio 4680	35
2014	Tuleta v. Med. Mut. of Ohio	2014 Ohio 396	35
2014	State v. Patterson	2014 Ohio 1621	34
2013	State v. Bement	2013 Ohio 5437	34
2014	State v. Kilbane	2014 Ohio 1228	33
2012	State v. Johnson	2012 Ohio 2508	33
2014	State v. Ferrell	2014 Ohio 4377	32
2018	State v. Frierson	2018 Ohio 391	31
2013	State v. Robinson	2013 Ohio 4375	31
2012	State v. Walker	2012 Ohio 4274	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 797 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 Mary J. Boyle on?: Mary J. Boyle is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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19 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).