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 2006 / Active

Melody J. Stewart

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Melody J. Stewart is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stewart authored 488 published opinions for the court (2007–2018), plus 22 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Venes (321 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. 27 of these were attributed to Stewart 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	State v. Venes	2013 Ohio 1891	321
2012	State v. Cassano	2012 Ohio 4047	129
2014	State v. Smith	2014 Ohio 1520	90
2011	State v. Collier	2011 Ohio 2791	87
2009	Hollins v. Shaffer	182 Ohio App. 3d 282	72
2015	State v. James	2015 Ohio 4987	67
2011	In re G.M.	2011 Ohio 4090	56
2010	In re C.C.†	187 Ohio App. 3d 365	53
2011	Grey v. Walgreen Co.	2011 Ohio 6167	50
2011	State v. Hawthorne	2011 Ohio 6078	46
2013	State v. Montgomery	2013 Ohio 4193	44
2014	In re W.A.J.	2014 Ohio 604	38
2008	Mastellone v. Lightning Rod Mutual Insurance	884 N.E.2d 1130	37
2014	State v. Moore	2014 Ohio 5135	36
2007	Siebert v. Tavarez, 88310 (5-31-2007)	2007 Ohio 2643	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 516 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 Melody J. Stewart on?: Melody J. Stewart is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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20 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).