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 1977 / Served to 1989

Robert L. Black

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Robert L. Black was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–1989 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Yale University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Black authored 105 published opinions for the court (1977–1989), plus 11 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Martin (9,356 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. 1 of these was attributed to Black 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
1983	State v. Martin	485 N.E.2d 717	9,356
1981	Lies v. Ohio Veterinary Medical Board	441 N.E.2d 584	181
1977	State v. Craft	367 N.E.2d 1221	107
1982	Hibbett v. City of Cincinnati	446 N.E.2d 832	55
1984	Denoyer v. Lamb	490 N.E.2d 615	53
1985	Fioresi v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	499 N.E.2d 5	52
1985	Wiebold Studio, Inc. v. Old World Restorations, Inc.	484 N.E.2d 280	49
1988	Bank One, Dayton, N.A. v. Doughman	571 N.E.2d 442	48
1988	State v. Breedlove	546 N.E.2d 420	46
1982	State v. Grimsley	444 N.E.2d 1071	46
1983	In Re Murphy	461 N.E.2d 910	42
1986	State v. Bakst	506 N.E.2d 1208	39
1985	Von Hoene v. State	486 N.E.2d 868	38
1981	State v. Bentz	442 N.E.2d 90	37
1984	Elizabeth Gamble Deaconess Home Ass'n v. Turner Construction Co.	470 N.E.2d 950	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 118 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 Robert L. Black on?: Robert L. Black was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).