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 1933 / Served to 1964

Perry H. Stevens

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Perry H. Stevens was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1933–1964 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stevens authored 378 published opinions for the court (1933–1963), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: Haluka v. Baker (54 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. 282 of these were attributed to Stevens 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
1941	Haluka v. Baker	34 N.E.2d 68	54
1938	State v. Gatton	20 N.E.2d 265	45
1945	Everhard v. Brown· Dissent	62 N.E.2d 901	17
1938	Forthofer v. Arnold	21 N.E.2d 869	17
1958	Cross v. Exchange Bank Co.	168 N.E.2d 910	14
1936	Sidle v. Baker	3 N.E.2d 537	13
1960	City of Akron v. Williams	177 N.E.2d 802	11
1940	Hofer v. Hofer†	35 Ohio Law. Abs. 486	11
1957	Botzum Bros. Co. v. Brown Lumber Co.	150 N.E.2d 485	10
1951	Gleitz, III, a Minor v. Gleitz, Sr.	98 N.E.2d 74	10
1947	Tighe v. Diamond	82 N.E.2d 99	10
1945	Connors v. Dobbs	66 N.E.2d 546	10
1941	Dougherty, Admr. v. Hall	45 N.E.2d 608	10
1953	Burks v. Louisville Title Ins. Co.	121 N.E.2d 94	9
1934	Thomas v. Viering†	18 Ohio Law. Abs. 343	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 385 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 Perry H. Stevens on?: Perry H. Stevens was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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31 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).