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 1999 / Served to 2005

William G. Batchelder

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William G. Batchelder was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2005 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Batchelder authored 39 published opinions for the court (1999–2005), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tewarson v. Simon (305 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. 1 of these was attributed to Batchelder 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
2001	Tewarson v. Simon	750 N.E.2d 176	305
2004	Eagle v. Fred Martin Motor Co.	809 N.E.2d 1161	153
1999	State v. Bing	731 N.E.2d 266	58
2003	Berthelot v. Berthelot	796 N.E.2d 541	57
2005	Swartzentruber v. Orrville Grace Brethren Church	163 Ohio App. 3d 96	47
2002	Rigby v. Fallsway Equipment Co.	779 N.E.2d 1056	37
2005	City of Akron v. Callaway	835 N.E.2d 736	30
2001	Gilbert v. Wnir 100 Fm	756 N.E.2d 1263	28
2001	Copley Township Board of Trustees v. Lorenzetti	766 N.E.2d 1022	25
2001	State v. Widder	766 N.E.2d 1018	25
1999	State v. Tipton	733 N.E.2d 634	25
2004	Marek v. Marek	822 N.E.2d 410	24
2001	Grendell v. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency	764 N.E.2d 1067	18
2005	Preferred Capital, Inc. v. Power Engineering Group, Inc.	163 Ohio App. 3d 522	17
2004	City of Wooster v. Entertainment One, Inc.	814 N.E.2d 521	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 42 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 G. Batchelder on?: William G. Batchelder 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).