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 2004 / Active

Sylvia Sieve Hendon

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Sylvia Sieve Hendon is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hendon authored 181 published opinions for the court (2005–2022), plus 3 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Rucker (25 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. 10 of these were attributed to Hendon 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
2012	State v. Rucker	2012 Ohio 185	25
2006	State v. Huffman	165 Ohio App. 3d 518	25
2005	Fehrenbach v. O'Malley	841 N.E.2d 350	22
2007	State v. Leonard, C-060595 (6-29-2007)	2007 Ohio 3312	18
2011	Brown v. Village of Lincoln Heights· Concurrence†	2011 Ohio 3551	16
2007	Smith v. Vaughn	174 Ohio App. 3d 473	14
2013	State v. Carusone	2013 Ohio 5034	13
2011	Thomas v. Cohr, Inc.	2011 Ohio 5916	13
2011	Cincinnati Enquirer v. Cincinnati Board of Education†	192 Ohio App. 3d 566	13
2012	Conkin v. CHS-Ohio Valley, Inc.	2012 Ohio 2816	12
2008	Huber v. Knock, C-080071 (11-14-2008)	2008 Ohio 5900	12
2008	State v. Griffin	886 N.E.2d 921	12
2005	Richards v. Kerlakian	835 N.E.2d 768	12
2013	Edlong Corp. v. Nadathur	2013 Ohio 1283	11
2012	SST Bearing Corp. v. Twin City Fan Cos., Ltd.	2012 Ohio 2490	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 189 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 Sylvia Sieve Hendon on?: Sylvia Sieve Hendon is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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22 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).