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 / Active

Patricia A. Delaney

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Patricia A. Delaney is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Delaney authored 1,322 published opinions for the court (2007–2025), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Knott v. Revolution Software, Inc. (58 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. 15 of these were attributed to Delaney 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
2009	Knott v. Revolution Software, Inc.	909 N.E.2d 702	58
2009	State v. Dunn, 2008-Ca-00137 (4-6-2009)	2009 Ohio 1688	47
2008	In Re Adrian R., 08-Ca-17 (12-11-2008)	2008 Ohio 6581	40
2019	State v. Webb	2019 Ohio 4195	36
2008	Hutta v. Hutta	894 N.E.2d 1282	34
2016	State v. Hughes	2016 Ohio 880	33
2022	In re E.H.	2022 Ohio 1682	30
2017	State v. Dotson	2017 Ohio 5565	26
2010	U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Detweiler†	191 Ohio App. 3d 464	25
2020	State v. Kibler	2020 Ohio 4631	24
2025	State v. Sheppard	2025 Ohio 161	23
2025	State v. Hane	2025 Ohio 120	23
2008	Moore v. Adams, 2007ap090066 (11-17-2008)	2008 Ohio 5953	22
2012	In re P.S.	2012 Ohio 3431	21
2014	Phillips v. Phillips	2014 Ohio 5439	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,338 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 A. Delaney on?: Patricia A. Delaney is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).