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

Penelope R. Cunningham

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Penelope R. Cunningham 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, Cunningham authored 183 published opinions for the court (2007–2019), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Williams (136 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. 12 of these were attributed to Cunningham 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. Williams	2011 Ohio 6267	136
2012	State v. Alexander	2012 Ohio 3349	92
2015	State v. Bailey	2015 Ohio 2997	87
2015	In re A.B.	2015 Ohio 3247	59
2017	State v. Harris	2017 Ohio 5594	32
2008	State v. Ellison	178 Ohio App. 3d 734	30
2013	State v. Kennedy	2013 Ohio 4221	29
2012	State v. Anderson	2012 Ohio 3347	28
2011	State v. Tibbs	2011 Ohio 6716	27
2014	Dottore v. Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P.	2014 Ohio 25	26
2009	State v. Grice	180 Ohio App. 3d 700	26
2014	State v. Simmons	2014 Ohio 3695	21
2009	State v. Morgan	910 N.E.2d 1075	21
2018	State v. Jeffries	2018 Ohio 2160	20
2017	Thomas v. Othman	2017 Ohio 8449	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 187 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 Penelope R. Cunningham on?: Penelope R. Cunningham is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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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).