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

Vernon L. Preston

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Vernon L. Preston 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, Preston authored 687 published opinions for the court (2007–2021), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Hudson (89 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. 3 of these were attributed to Preston 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
2013	State v. Hudson	2013 Ohio 647	89
2013	In re H.M.K.	2013 Ohio 4317	85
2017	State v. Nienberg	2017 Ohio 2920	63
2013	ISHA, Inc. v. Risser	2013 Ohio 2149	62
2014	State v. Bagley	2014 Ohio 1787	57
2014	State v. Coleman	2014 Ohio 5320	53
2014	State v. Liles	2014 Ohio 259	52
2014	State v. Velez	2014 Ohio 1788	50
2016	State v. Stevens	2016 Ohio 446	41
2018	State v. Frye	2018 Ohio 894	40
2012	State v. Wine	2012 Ohio 2837	39
2014	State v. Gartrell	2014 Ohio 5203	38
2020	State v. Jackson	157 N.E.3d 240	33
2009	State v. Turks, 1-08-44 (4-20-2009)	2009 Ohio 1837	29
2011	State v. Stall	2011 Ohio 5733	28

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 Vernon L. Preston on?: Vernon L. Preston is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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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).