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 1995 / Former Judge

Roger L. Kline

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Roger L. Kline was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kline authored 317 published opinions for the court (1991–2013), plus 25 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. McNamara (824 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. 21 of these were attributed to Kline 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
1997	State v. McNamara	707 N.E.2d 539	824
1996	State v. Medcalf	675 N.E.2d 1268	399
1995	State v. Sufronko	664 N.E.2d 596	91
1997	State v. Stepp	690 N.E.2d 1342	81
2005	Mahlerwein v. Mahlerwein	160 Ohio App. 3d 564	77
1996	Nichols v. Hanzel	674 N.E.2d 1237	76
2000	Crane Hollow, Inc. v. Marathon Ashland Pipe Line, LLC	740 N.E.2d 328	73
1998	State v. Carter	715 N.E.2d 223	66
2008	State v. Kingsland· Concurrence	895 N.E.2d 633	65
2006	Yazdani-Isfehani v. Yazdani-Isfehani	170 Ohio App. 3d 1	52
1991	City of Columbus v. Anderson	600 N.E.2d 712	46
1995	State v. Miller	664 N.E.2d 1309	45
2005	State v. Morris	825 N.E.2d 637	42
2004	Roll v. Edwards	805 N.E.2d 162	42
1997	Whitaker v. Kear	704 N.E.2d 317	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 354 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 Roger L. Kline on?: Roger L. Kline was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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31 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).