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 2011 / Active

Robin N. Piper

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Robin N. Piper is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Piper authored 638 published opinions for the court (2011–2026), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In re M.B. (64 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 Piper 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
2014	In re M.B.	2014 Ohio 5009	64
2019	In re S.M.	2019 Ohio 198	57
2015	State v. Collins	2015 Ohio 3710	45
2013	State v. Vore	2013 Ohio 1490	40
2013	Hetterick v. Hetterick	2013 Ohio 15	33
2011	Touhey v. Ed's Tree & Turf, L.L.C· Concurrence†	194 Ohio App. 3d 800	33
2013	Lindsay P. v. Towne Properties Asset Mgt. Co., Ltd.	2013 Ohio 4124	30
2018	In re Adoption of A.L.S.	2018 Ohio 507	29
2013	In re M.A.P.	2013 Ohio 655	26
2020	State v. Morris	2020 Ohio 4103	24
2019	Taylor v. Atrium	2019 Ohio 447	20
2013	State v. Marshall	2013 Ohio 5092	20
2013	State v. Hobbs	2013 Ohio 3089	20
2022	In re J.N.L.H.	2022 Ohio 3865	19
2020	State v. Teasley	2020 Ohio 4626	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 643 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 Robin N. Piper on?: Robin N. Piper is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).