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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1995 / Served to 2003

Terrence O'Donnell

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Terrence O'Donnell was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2003 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Cleveland State University

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Donnell authored 68 published opinions for the court (1995–2003), plus 17 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Kilroy v. B.H. Lakeshore Co. (174 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. 88 of these were attributed to O'Donnell 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
1996	Kilroy v. B.H. Lakeshore Co.†	676 N.E.2d 171	174
2002	Kanjuka v. Metrohealth Medical Center· Dissent†	783 N.E.2d 920	46
1997	Harmon v. Philip Morris, Inc.†	697 N.E.2d 270	45
1997	Eiland v. Coldwell Banker Hunter Realty· Dissent†	702 N.E.2d 116	39
1995	State v. Johnson†	669 N.E.2d 483	39
1996	Nielsen v. Meeker†	679 N.E.2d 28	38
2001	State v. Childs†	755 N.E.2d 958	32
1996	In Re Contempt of Morris· Dissent†	674 N.E.2d 761	31
1995	Hrabak v. Collins†	670 N.E.2d 281	30
1996	Papadelis v. First American Savings Bank· Dissent†	679 N.E.2d 356	26
1997	Carpenter v. Marc Glassman, Inc.†	705 N.E.2d 1281	25
2000	Smith v. Dillard Department Stores, Inc.· Dissent†	744 N.E.2d 1198	24
2001	Read v. City of Fairview Park†	764 N.E.2d 1079	23
1998	Kadish, Hinkel & Weibel Co., L.P.A. v. Rendina· Dissent†	714 N.E.2d 984	20
2001	Cunningham v. Hildebrand†	755 N.E.2d 384	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 88 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 Terrence O'Donnell on?: Terrence O'Donnell was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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8 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).