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 P. Ringland

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Robert P. Ringland 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, Ringland authored 451 published opinions for the court (1983–2020), plus 8 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Grinstead (120 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. 28 of these were attributed to Ringland 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
2011	State v. Grinstead†	194 Ohio App. 3d 755	120
2012	State v. Blankenburg· Concurrence†	197 Ohio App. 3d 201	99
2014	In re G.F.	2014 Ohio 2580	72
1983	Bean v. Bean	471 N.E.2d 785	68
2012	State v. Hendrix	2012 Ohio 5610	50
2011	Roberts v. RMB Enterprises, Inc.†	197 Ohio App. 3d 435	46
2013	State v. Dillon	2013 Ohio 335	40
2019	In re A.J.	2019 Ohio 593	33
2011	Touhey v. Ed's Tree & Turf, L.L.C†	194 Ohio App. 3d 800	33
2012	State v. Dillingham	2012 Ohio 5841	29
2013	Fifth Third Mtge. Co. v. Bell	2013 Ohio 3678	28
2013	Ohmer v. Renn-Ohmer	2013 Ohio 330	28
2017	State v. Workman	2017 Ohio 8638	25
2016	Dunn v. Clark	2016 Ohio 641	25
2015	State v. Suarez	2015 Ohio 64	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 466 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 P. Ringland on?: Robert P. Ringland is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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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).