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 2003 / Active

Mary Degenaro

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Mary Degenaro is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Degenaro authored 492 published opinions for the court (2001–2018), plus 27 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Pallai, 07 Ma 198 (12-10-2008) (82 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. 9 of these were attributed to Degenaro 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
2008	State v. Pallai, 07 Ma 198 (12-10-2008)	2008 Ohio 6635	82
2002	State v. Hodge	771 N.E.2d 331	70
2003	Douglass v. Salem Community Hospital· Dissent	794 N.E.2d 107	65
2002	Allied Erecting & Dismantling Co. v. City of Youngstown	783 N.E.2d 523	63
2002	Bobb Forest Products, Inc. v. Morbark Industries, Inc.	783 N.E.2d 560	53
2013	State v. Bellard	2013 Ohio 2956	47
2003	State v. Evans	792 N.E.2d 757	46
2010	State v. Kaufman	2010 Ohio 1536	38
2005	State v. Moore· Concurrence	161 Ohio App. 3d 778	35
2002	State v. Brown	783 N.E.2d 539	33
2013	State v. Dixon	2013 Ohio 2951	30
2003	State v. Vlad· Dissent	790 N.E.2d 1246	29
2009	Trinity Health System v. Mdx Corp.· Concurrence	180 Ohio App. 3d 815	28
2002	State v. Lordi	778 N.E.2d 605	24
2003	Myers v. Myers· Dissent	792 N.E.2d 770	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 528 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 Degenaro on?: Mary Degenaro is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).