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 1955 / Active

Stephen W. Powell

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Stephen W. Powell is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1955 · 71 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Powell authored 1,414 published opinions for the court (1995–2026), plus 19 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Mergenthal v. Star Banc Corp. (286 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. 19 of these were attributed to Powell 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	Mergenthal v. Star Banc Corp.	701 N.E.2d 383	286
1995	State v. Blankenship	657 N.E.2d 559	228
2000	State v. Boshko	745 N.E.2d 1111	139
2014	State v. Morgan	2014 Ohio 2472	118
1995	State v. Tumbleson	664 N.E.2d 1318	104
2020	State v. Guyton	2020 Ohio 3837	101
2012	State v. Blankenburg†	197 Ohio App. 3d 201	99
2007	State v. Cochran, Ca2006-10-023 (7-2-2007)	2007 Ohio 3353	98
2013	State v. Crawford	2013 Ohio 3315	89
2014	In re D.K.W.	2014 Ohio 2896	80
2021	State v. Hodgkin	2021 Ohio 1353	68
2013	State v. Durham	2013 Ohio 4764	68
1998	State v. Burdine-Justice	709 N.E.2d 551	66
2015	State v. Intihar	2015 Ohio 5507	65
2015	In re K.W.	2015 Ohio 4315	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,435 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 Stephen W. Powell on?: Stephen W. Powell is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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71 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).