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 1991 / Active

William Hoffman

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William Hoffman is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1991 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoffman authored 1,531 published opinions for the court (1983–2026), plus 66 dissents and 69 concurrences. Most cited: Jones v. Shelly Co. (178 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. 32 of these were attributed to Hoffman 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
1995	Jones v. Shelly Co.	666 N.E.2d 316	178
2010	Tennant v. Martin-Auer· Concurrence†	188 Ohio App. 3d 768	65
2020	State v. Maddox	2020 Ohio 4702	52
2015	Leech v. Schumaker	2015 Ohio 4444	50
2020	State v. Downard	2020 Ohio 4227	49
2001	Jackson v. McDonald· Dissent	760 N.E.2d 24	49
2009	State v. Dunn, 2008-Ca-00137 (4-6-2009)· Concurrence	2009 Ohio 1688	47
1997	Kilbarger v. Anchor Hocking Glass Co.· Concurrence	697 N.E.2d 1080	46
1994	Betz v. Timken Mercy Medical Center	644 N.E.2d 1058	42
2022	State v. Maddox	2022 Ohio 1350	38
2008	Hutta v. Hutta· Dissent	894 N.E.2d 1282	34
2008	Aycock v. Sandy Valley Church of God, 2006 Ap 09 0054 (1-8-2008)· Dissent	2008 Ohio 105	32
1996	In Re duncan/walker Children· Dissent	673 N.E.2d 217	32
2020	State v. Manion	2020 Ohio 4230	29
2007	Church v. Fleishour Homes, Inc.· Dissent	172 Ohio App. 3d 205	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,666 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 Hoffman on?: William Hoffman is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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35 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).