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 1992 / Active

Sheila J. Farmer

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Sheila J. Farmer is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1992 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Farmer authored 818 published opinions for the court (1993–2017), plus 18 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Buchanan (74 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. 9 of these were attributed to Farmer 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
2003	State v. Buchanan	796 N.E.2d 1003	74
1994	State v. Kelly	638 N.E.2d 153	32
2009	State v. Smith, 2008ca00032 (1-20-2009)	2009 Ohio 208	28
2013	In re A.S.	2013 Ohio 4018	25
2012	Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 33 v. Sutton	2012 Ohio 3549	18
1996	State v. Nelson· Dissent	701 N.E.2d 747	14
1998	In Re Adoption of Doe	719 N.E.2d 1071	13
2011	State v. Tabor	2011 Ohio 3200	12
2008	State v. White, 07ap-743 (2-21-2008)	2008 Ohio 701	11
1995	State v. Cherry	669 N.E.2d 45	11
2011	State v. Fields	2011 Ohio 6044	10
2008	In Re Slayman, 08ca70 (12-18-2008)	2008 Ohio 6713	10
2001	Bellinger v. Weight Watchers Gourmet Food Co.	756 N.E.2d 1251	10
1997	Manohar v. Massillon Community Hospital	702 N.E.2d 937	10
2013	State v. Crum	2013 Ohio 903	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 838 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 Sheila J. Farmer on?: Sheila J. Farmer is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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34 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).