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 / Served to 2013

Mary Jane Trapp

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Mary Jane Trapp was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2007–2013 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Trapp authored 589 published opinions for the court (2007–2025), plus 8 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Welch v. Ziccarelli, 2006-L-229 (8-24-2007) (89 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. 13 of these were attributed to Trapp 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
2007	Welch v. Ziccarelli, 2006-L-229 (8-24-2007)	2007 Ohio 4374	89
2020	State v. Petway	156 N.E.3d 467	63
2007	State v. Lloyd, 2006-L-185 (6-15-2007)	2007 Ohio 3013	32
2007	State v. Batich, 2006-A-0031 (5-11-2007)	2007 Ohio 2305	32
2021	State v. Willard	175 N.E.3d 989	30
2007	State v. Pesec, 2006-P-0084 (7-27-2007)	2007 Ohio 3846	26
2007	Simeone v. Girard City Board of Education	872 N.E.2d 344	26
2007	State v. Story, 2006-A-0085 (9-21-2007)	2007 Ohio 4959	25
2019	State v. Anthony	2019 Ohio 5410	24
2020	State v. Russell	2020 Ohio 3243	22
2008	State v. Sands, 2007-L-003 (12-31-2008)	2008 Ohio 6981	21
2007	State v. McKinney, 2006-L-169 (6-29-2007)	2007 Ohio 3389	21
2008	State v. Andrews	895 N.E.2d 585	19
2020	State v. Mitchell	2020 Ohio 3417	18
2009	State v. McFeely, 2008-A-0067 (3-27-2009)	2009 Ohio 1436	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 615 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 Jane Trapp on?: Mary Jane Trapp 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).