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 2014

Patrick Dinkelacker

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

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

Tenure: 2007–2014 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Dinkelacker authored 152 published opinions for the court (2007–2014), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wellman (79 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. 16 of these were attributed to Dinkelacker 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	State v. Wellman	879 N.E.2d 215	79
2008	Blair v. McDonagh	894 N.E.2d 377	59
2010	State v. Lukacs†	188 Ohio App. 3d 597	48
2011	Eysoldt v. ProScan Imaging	2011 Ohio 2359	37
2013	State v. Thomas	2013 Ohio 5386	35
2012	State v. Whipple	2012 Ohio 2938	33
2007	State v. Obsaint, C-060629 (6-1-2007)	2007 Ohio 2661	32
2008	Mitchell v. International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.	902 N.E.2d 37	29
2012	State v. Ojile	2012 Ohio 6015	28
2007	State v. Taylor	174 Ohio App. 3d 477	28
2009	State v. Grice· Dissent	180 Ohio App. 3d 700	26
2013	State v. Brown	2013 Ohio 2720	25
2008	Wells Fargo Bank, National Ass'n v. Byrd	178 Ohio App. 3d 285	24
2007	State v. Robinson, C-060434 (5-18-2007)	2007 Ohio 2388	24
2009	Greene v. Whiteside	908 N.E.2d 975	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 157 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 Patrick Dinkelacker on?: Patrick Dinkelacker was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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7 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).