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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1983 / Served to 2013

Peter M. Handwork

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Peter M. Handwork was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–2013 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Handwork authored 250 published opinions for the court (1983–2019), plus 14 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Russell v. Interim Personnel, Inc. (398 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. 34 of these were attributed to Handwork 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
1999	Russell v. Interim Personnel, Inc.· Dissent	733 N.E.2d 1186	398
1985	Clemets v. Heston	485 N.E.2d 287	120
1998	Conley-Slowinski v. Superior Spinning & Stamping Co.	714 N.E.2d 991	114
1983	State v. Geraldo	468 N.E.2d 328	112
1983	First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Toledo v. Perry's Landing, Inc.	463 N.E.2d 636	103
1983	Porter v. Miller	468 N.E.2d 134	101
1984	Helle v. Landmark, Inc.	472 N.E.2d 765	87
2006	State v. Ohly	853 N.E.2d 675	74
1989	Roth v. Roth	585 N.E.2d 482	73
1983	State v. Danby	463 N.E.2d 47	72
1983	City of Toledo v. Stuart	464 N.E.2d 474	62
1984	Bolling v. Clevepak Corp.	484 N.E.2d 1367	61
1984	State v. Arrington	470 N.E.2d 211	60
1999	Reynolds v. Budzik	134 Ohio App. 3d 844	59
1991	United Home Federal v. Rhonehouse	601 N.E.2d 138	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 267 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 Peter M. Handwork on?: Peter M. Handwork was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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30 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).