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 1987 / Served to 1993

Mary Cacioppo

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Mary Cacioppo was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–1993 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cacioppo authored 196 published opinions for the court (1987–2000), plus 12 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wolfe (253 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. 19 of these were attributed to Cacioppo 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
1988	State v. Wolfe	555 N.E.2d 689	253
1990	Manofsky v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.	591 N.E.2d 752	116
1990	Hargrove v. Tanner	586 N.E.2d 141	111
1988	State v. Vrona	547 N.E.2d 1189	82
1992	Neubrander v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.	610 N.E.2d 1089	74
1992	Baker v. Baker	615 N.E.2d 699	66
1991	Brown v. Akron Beacon Journal Publishing Co.	610 N.E.2d 507	51
1990	State v. Smith	589 N.E.2d 454	45
1988	Laverick v. Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Inc.	540 N.E.2d 305	43
1992	Healey v. Republic Powdered Metals, Inc.	619 N.E.2d 1035	42
1990	Bond v. Bond	590 N.E.2d 348	41
1991	Youssefi v. Youssefi	610 N.E.2d 455	34
1992	Didado v. Lamson & Sessions Co.	610 N.E.2d 1085	33
1994	State v. Moore· Concurrence	646 N.E.2d 470	31
1990	Davidson v. Hayes	590 N.E.2d 18	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 211 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 Mary Cacioppo on?: Mary Cacioppo 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).