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 1991 / Active

Peter B. Abele

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Peter B. Abele is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1991 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Abele authored 635 published opinions for the court (1982–2026), plus 6 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Claytor (907 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. 8 of these were attributed to Abele 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
1993	State v. Claytor	620 N.E.2d 906	907
1994	State v. Venham	645 N.E.2d 831	341
1997	Vanest v. Pillsbury Co.	706 N.E.2d 825	129
1992	Schwartz v. Bank One, Portsmouth, N.A.	619 N.E.2d 10	129
1992	State v. Gullett· Concurrence	604 N.E.2d 176	95
2013	In re R.M.	2013 Ohio 3588	86
1996	Phillips v. Rayburn	680 N.E.2d 1279	86
1996	Carroll v. Detty	681 N.E.2d 1383	79
1993	Dozer v. Dozer	623 N.E.2d 1272	79
1996	Davison v. Rini	686 N.E.2d 278	73
1993	McGlone v. Grimshaw	620 N.E.2d 935	73
2014	State v. West	2014 Ohio 1941	72
1994	State v. Depue· Concurrence	645 N.E.2d 745	63
1995	Mark v. Mellott Manufacturing Co.	666 N.E.2d 631	59
1991	State v. Taylor	598 N.E.2d 818	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 653 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 Peter B. Abele on?: Peter B. Abele is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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35 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).