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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1988 / Served to 2012

Thomas J. Grady

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Thomas J. Grady was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1941 · age 85
Tenure: 1988–2012 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Cleveland State University
University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Grady authored 756 published opinions for the court (1989–2014), plus 69 dissents and 57 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wilson, 22581 (2-6-2009) (433 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. 67 of these were attributed to Grady 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
2009	State v. Wilson, 22581 (2-6-2009)	2009 Ohio 525	433
1991	State v. Barnett	596 N.E.2d 1101	235
2004	State v. Woullard	814 N.E.2d 964	200
2000	State v. Hawn	741 N.E.2d 594	178
2011	State v. Leopard· Dissent†	2011 Ohio 3864	135
1992	Layne v. Layne	615 N.E.2d 332	118
1996	State v. Carpenter· Concurrence	688 N.E.2d 1090	115
1994	Woloch v. Foster	649 N.E.2d 918	112
1993	In Re Pieper Children	619 N.E.2d 1059	108
1992	Focke v. Focke	615 N.E.2d 327	84
1995	Jacobs v. Racevskis	663 N.E.2d 653	83
1996	Tremaine v. Tremaine	676 N.E.2d 1249	82
1992	State v. Smith	617 N.E.2d 1160	78
1997	In Re Williams· Concurrence	687 N.E.2d 507	76
2012	State v. Brown	2012 Ohio 199	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 882 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 J. Grady on?: Thomas J. Grady was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).