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 2011 / Active

Michael T. Hall

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Michael T. Hall is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 903 published opinions for the court (2011–2021), plus 7 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Leopard (135 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. 14 of these were attributed to Hall 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
2011	State v. Leopard	2011 Ohio 3864	135
2020	State v. Ferguson	2020 Ohio 4153	100
2013	State v. Hill	2013 Ohio 717	72
2013	State v. Eicholtz	2013 Ohio 302	38
2012	State v. Benton	2012 Ohio 4080	38
2021	Rhododendron Holdings, L.L.C. v. Harris	166 N.E.3d 725	34
2015	State v. Cole	2015 Ohio 3793	32
2015	State v. White	2015 Ohio 3512	30
2011	State v. Simpson	2011 Ohio 6181	27
2017	State v. Hall	2017 Ohio 2682	25
2011	State v. Santiago· Concurrence†	2011 Ohio 5292	25
2014	State v. Curry	2014 Ohio 3836	23
2014	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Goebel	2014 Ohio 472	23
2012	State v. Prater	2012 Ohio 5105	23
2012	Colville v. Meijer Stores Ltd.	2012 Ohio 2413	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 915 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 Michael T. Hall on?: Michael T. Hall is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).