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 2007 / Active

Thomas J. Osowik

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Thomas J. Osowik is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Osowik authored 689 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Blake Homes, Ltd. v. FirstEnergy Corp. (27 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. 12 of these were attributed to Osowik 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
2007	Blake Homes, Ltd. v. FirstEnergy Corp.	173 Ohio App. 3d 230	27
2019	State v. Calhoun	2019 Ohio 228	23
2020	In re I.H.	2020 Ohio 4853	20
2018	McGarry & Sons, Inc. v. Constr. Resources One, L.L.C.	2018 Ohio 528	20
2008	Four Howards, Ltd. v. J & F Wenz Road Investment, L.L.C.	902 N.E.2d 63	18
2017	State v. Teal	2017 Ohio 7202	17
2022	State v. Fenderson	2022 Ohio 1973	16
2020	State v. Glanton	2020 Ohio 834	16
2019	Toledo v. Manning	2019 Ohio 3405	16
2015	In re T.C.	2015 Ohio 3665	16
2008	City of Toledo v. Sailes	180 Ohio App. 3d 56	16
2007	State v. Perz	173 Ohio App. 3d 99	16
2022	State v. Rogers	2022 Ohio 4126	14
2017	State v. Jones	2017 Ohio 413	14
2010	State v. Boles†	190 Ohio App. 3d 431	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 690 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 Thomas J. Osowik on?: Thomas J. Osowik is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).