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 2002 / Active

William A. Klatt

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William A. Klatt is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Klatt authored 754 published opinions for the court (2002–2026), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Jarupan v. Hanna (118 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 Klatt 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
2007	Jarupan v. Hanna	878 N.E.2d 66	118
2003	State v. Dalton	793 N.E.2d 509	68
2003	Samadder v. DMF of Ohio, Inc.	798 N.E.2d 1141	66
2006	Abrams v. Worthington	169 Ohio App. 3d 94	61
2010	Capella III, L.L.C. v. Wilcox†	190 Ohio App. 3d 133	60
2010	Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Ryan†	189 Ohio App. 3d 560	51
2018	Claris, Ltd. v. Hotel Dev. Servs., L.L.C.	2018 Ohio 2602	48
2009	Huntington National Bank v. Burda, 08ap-658 (4-14-2009)	2009 Ohio 1752	48
2017	State v. Armengau	2017 Ohio 4452	45
2008	Williams v. Barrick, 08ap-133 (9-11-2008)	2008 Ohio 4592	45
2008	Bond v. Village of Canal Winchester, 07ap-556 (3-6-2008)	2008 Ohio 945	44
2010	State v. Gravely†	188 Ohio App. 3d 825	42
2014	State v. Stubbs	2014 Ohio 3696	41
2019	In re J.P.	2019 Ohio 1619	39
2013	State v. Akbari	2013 Ohio 5709	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 764 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 A. Klatt on?: William A. Klatt is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).