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 2005 / Served to 2009

William J. Skow

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William J. Skow was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1941–2009
Tenure: 2005–2009 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Skow authored 68 published opinions for the court (2005–2009), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Durnwald (51 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2005	State v. Durnwald	163 Ohio App. 3d 361	51
2005	In Re Alexander C.	164 Ohio App. 3d 540	48
2005	Blood v. Nofzinger	162 Ohio App. 3d 545	46
2006	Terry v. Ottawa County Board of Mental Retardation & Developmental Delay	165 Ohio App. 3d 638	17
2005	Konesky v. Wood County Agricultural Society	164 Ohio App. 3d 839	17
2007	State v. Gregg, H-06-030 (9-7-2007)	2007 Ohio 4611	16
2006	McMullian v. Borean	857 N.E.2d 180	15
2007	State v. Thrasher, Wd-06-047 (6-8-2007)	2007 Ohio 2838	13
2005	Johnson v. American Family Insurance	827 N.E.2d 403	13
2006	Auto-Owners Insurance v. Merillat	854 N.E.2d 513	10
2005	CommuniCare, Inc. v. Wood County Board of Commissioners	829 N.E.2d 706	10
2005	State v. Sanchez	162 Ohio App. 3d 113	10
2005	Truman v. Village of Clay Center	825 N.E.2d 1182	10
2008	State v. O'Neill	887 N.E.2d 394	9
2007	Haas v. Semrad, L-06-1294 (6-8-2007)	2007 Ohio 2828	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 70 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 J. Skow on?: William J. Skow was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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4 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).