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 2009 / Active

Robert A. Hendrickson

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Robert A. Hendrickson is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hendrickson authored 656 published opinions for the court (1981–2026), plus 12 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Boles (129 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. 14 of these were attributed to Hendrickson 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
2013	State v. Boles	2013 Ohio 5202	129
2019	State v. Dinka	2019 Ohio 4209	105
1985	Brooks v. Hurst Buick-Pontiac-Olds-Gmc, Inc.· Dissent	491 N.E.2d 345	102
2015	In re C.B.	2015 Ohio 3709	81
1988	Kuehn v. Kuehn· Dissent	564 N.E.2d 97	80
2011	BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. v. Kolenich†	194 Ohio App. 3d 777	63
2016	In re T.P.	2016 Ohio 72	62
2013	State v. Widmer	2013 Ohio 62	54
2014	State v. Kinsworthy	2014 Ohio 1584	50
1986	State v. Tomlinson· Concurrence	515 N.E.2d 963	49
2014	State v. Setty	2014 Ohio 2340	48
2013	State v. Thornton	2013 Ohio 2394	43
2020	State v. Evick	2020 Ohio 3072	39
2014	State v. Vunda	2014 Ohio 3449	37
1983	In Re Vickers Children· Concurrence	470 N.E.2d 438	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 677 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 Robert A. Hendrickson on?: Robert A. Hendrickson is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).