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 1989 / Served to 1995

Thomas F. Bryant

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Thomas F. Bryant was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1995 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Ohio Northern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bryant authored 743 published opinions for the court (1957–2015), plus 52 dissents and 52 concurrences. Most cited: Harsco Corp. v. Crane Carrier Co. (149 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. 26 of these were attributed to Bryant 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	Harsco Corp. v. Crane Carrier Co.· Concurrence	701 N.E.2d 1040	149
1999	McConnell v. Hunt Sports Enterprises· Dissent	725 N.E.2d 1193	124
1991	Hanly v. Riverside Methodist Hospitals	603 N.E.2d 1126	119
1994	Miller v. Paulson	646 N.E.2d 521	115
1991	Dillon v. Bundy· Concurrence	596 N.E.2d 500	99
2000	State v. Brown	737 N.E.2d 1057	95
1999	State v. Norman	735 N.E.2d 953	95
1999	Berge v. Columbus Community Cable Access	736 N.E.2d 517	88
2003	Big Bob's, Inc. v. Ohio Liquor Control Commission	784 N.E.2d 753	86
1988	Day v. Day	532 N.E.2d 201	85
1996	Schuch v. Rogers	681 N.E.2d 1388	84
1995	State v. Elliott	663 N.E.2d 412	84
1998	Griffith v. Linton	721 N.E.2d 146	78
2002	Powell v. Grant Med. Ctr.	771 N.E.2d 874	77
1990	Defiance v. Cannon	592 N.E.2d 884	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 847 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 Thomas F. Bryant on?: Thomas F. Bryant was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).