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 1987 / Active

Stephen R. Shaw

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Stephen R. Shaw is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1987 · 39 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shaw authored 992 published opinions for the court (1988–2023), plus 29 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Martin (156 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. 11 of these were attributed to Shaw 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
1999	State v. Martin	736 N.E.2d 907	156
1993	In Re Shaeffer Children	621 N.E.2d 426	152
2013	State v. Berry	2013 Ohio 2380	147
2012	State v. Hites	2012 Ohio 1892	116
1988	Proctor v. Proctor	548 N.E.2d 287	112
2008	In Re Smith, 1-07-58 (6-30-2008)	2008 Ohio 3234	76
1988	State v. Strobel	554 N.E.2d 916	74
2000	State v. Mendoza	738 N.E.2d 822	73
2006	Burns v. Prudential Securities, Inc.· Dissent	857 N.E.2d 621	65
1998	Burrell v. Kassicieh	714 N.E.2d 442	57
2017	In re K.M.S.	2017 Ohio 142	49
2007	State v. Masters	876 N.E.2d 1007	44
1999	J.A. Industries, Inc. v. All American Plastics, Inc.	726 N.E.2d 1066	40
1991	State v. Banks	593 N.E.2d 346	40
1991	Stull v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.	595 N.E.2d 504	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,034 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 R. Shaw on?: Stephen R. Shaw is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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39 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).