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 1997 / Active

Patricia Ann Blackmon

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Patricia Ann Blackmon is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Blackmon authored 642 published opinions for the court (1991–2021), plus 16 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Brewer v. Cleveland City Schools Board of Education (488 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. 11 of these were attributed to Blackmon 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
1997	Brewer v. Cleveland City Schools Board of Education	701 N.E.2d 1023	488
1997	Northeast Ohio Apartment Ass'n v. Cuyahoga County Board of County Commissioners	699 N.E.2d 534	220
2000	Baiko v. Mays	746 N.E.2d 618	193
1998	Burgess v. Tackas	708 N.E.2d 285	162
1993	State v. Barr· Dissent	620 N.E.2d 242	117
1994	North Coast Cable Ltd. Partnership v. Hanneman	648 N.E.2d 875	77
2014	State v. Nia	2014 Ohio 2527	71
2014	State v. Clayton	2014 Ohio 112	70
1995	Okocha v. Fehrenbacher	655 N.E.2d 744	60
1991	State v. Duganitz	601 N.E.2d 642	55
2014	State v. Taylor	2014 Ohio 3134	50
1999	Glick v. Glick	729 N.E.2d 1244	46
2014	State v. Johnson	2014 Ohio 494	43
1993	State v. Smelcer	623 N.E.2d 1219	40
2013	State v. Vickers	2013 Ohio 1337	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 662 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 Patricia Ann Blackmon on?: Patricia Ann Blackmon is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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29 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).