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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1990 / Active

William H. Harsha

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William H. Harsha is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1990 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harsha authored 588 published opinions for the court (1989–2018), plus 54 dissents and 69 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. Scioto Cty. Bd. of Commrs. (1,471 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. 42 of these were attributed to Harsha 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
1993	Brown v. Scioto Cty. Bd. of Commrs.	622 N.E.2d 1153	1,471
1993	State v. Guysinger	621 N.E.2d 726	1,031
1993	State v. Williams	619 N.E.2d 1141	969
1993	State v. Claytor· Concurrence	620 N.E.2d 906	907
1991	State v. Klein	597 N.E.2d 1141	788
1997	Barkley v. Barkley	694 N.E.2d 989	344
1997	Helton v. Scioto County Board of Commissioners	703 N.E.2d 841	331
1991	Morehead v. Conley	599 N.E.2d 786	322
1993	State v. Nichols· Concurrence	619 N.E.2d 80	193
1995	State v. Polick	655 N.E.2d 820	190
2000	State v. Martin	747 N.E.2d 318	158
1998	Rogers v. Hill	706 N.E.2d 438	146
1993	In Re Hiatt	621 N.E.2d 1222	115
1992	Kouns v. Pemberton· Concurrence	617 N.E.2d 701	113
1993	State v. Jackson	619 N.E.2d 1135	110

Showing the 15 most-cited of 711 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 William H. Harsha on?: William H. Harsha is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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36 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).