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 2005 / Active

Mary Eileen Kilbane

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Mary Eileen Kilbane is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kilbane authored 809 published opinions for the court (1999–2024), plus 12 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In re M.J. (49 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. 21 of these were attributed to Kilbane 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
2013	In re M.J.	2013 Ohio 5440	49
2002	Kanjuka v. Metrohealth Medical Center	783 N.E.2d 920	46
2014	State v. Spock	2014 Ohio 606	39
2003	Hanson v. City of Shaker Heights	786 N.E.2d 487	36
2000	Lightbody v. Rust	739 N.E.2d 840	36
2009	State v. Strickland· Dissent†	183 Ohio App. 3d 602	34
2013	In re E.A.	2013 Ohio 1193	31
2020	State v. Dames	2020 Ohio 4991	29
2020	State v. Crenshaw	2020 Ohio 4922	28
2014	Hedeen v. Autos Direct Online, Inc.	2014 Ohio 4200	28
2011	State v. Santiago	2011 Ohio 3058	28
1999	Haslem v. Haslem	727 N.E.2d 928	28
2013	Gentile v. Gentile	2013 Ohio 1338	27
2010	Sampson v. Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority†	188 Ohio App. 3d 250	27
2000	Smith v. Dillard Department Stores, Inc.	744 N.E.2d 1198	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 825 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 Eileen Kilbane on?: Mary Eileen Kilbane is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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21 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).