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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1983 / Served to 2004

William R. Baird

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William R. Baird was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–2004 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baird authored 262 published opinions for the court (1983–2013), plus 59 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Lorain National Bank v. Saratoga Apartments (790 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. 35 of these were attributed to Baird 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
1989	Lorain National Bank v. Saratoga Apartments	572 N.E.2d 198	790
1988	Midwest Specialties, Inc. v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.	536 N.E.2d 411	288
1996	Textron Financial Corp. v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance· Dissent	684 N.E.2d 1261	267
1994	In Re Wise	645 N.E.2d 812	226
1996	Kremer v. Cox	682 N.E.2d 1006	213
1994	City of Tallmadge v. McCoy	645 N.E.2d 802	150
1990	Hargrove v. Tanner· Dissent	586 N.E.2d 141	111
1994	State v. Shue	646 N.E.2d 1156	101
1992	Babka v. Babka· Dissent	615 N.E.2d 247	98
1993	State v. Ramos	623 N.E.2d 1336	96
1988	State v. Vrona· Dissent	547 N.E.2d 1189	82
1996	Klingshirn v. Westview Concrete Corp.	680 N.E.2d 691	75
1993	State v. Weiss	637 N.E.2d 47	73
1991	State v. Steiner	593 N.E.2d 368	66
1983	Kaye v. Buehrle	457 N.E.2d 373	64

Showing the 15 most-cited of 334 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 William R. Baird on?: William R. Baird was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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21 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).