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 1971 / Served to 1983

William H. Victor

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William H. Victor was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1971–1983 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Victor authored 70 published opinions for the court (1970–1990). Most cited: State v. Owens (93 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
1975	State v. Owens	366 N.E.2d 1367	93
1978	State v. Papp	412 N.E.2d 401	87
1978	City of Akron v. Ragsdale	399 N.E.2d 119	87
1982	Nickey v. Brown	454 N.E.2d 177	70
1977	Schreiner v. Karson	369 N.E.2d 800	70
1981	Douthitt v. Garrison	444 N.E.2d 1068	66
1979	State v. Sutton	411 N.E.2d 818	49
1982	Cale Products, Inc. v. Orrville Bronze & Aluminum Co.	457 N.E.2d 854	39
1981	Shaw v. Central Oil Asphalt Corp.	449 N.E.2d 3	37
1971	State v. Hyde	268 N.E.2d 820	29
1976	Transcon Builders, Inc. v. City of Lorain	359 N.E.2d 715	19
1981	Green v. Western Reserve Psychiatric Habilitation Center	444 N.E.2d 442	17
1980	Morrison v. Devore Trucking, Inc.	428 N.E.2d 438	17
1978	Vetovitz Bros. v. Kenny Construction Co.	397 N.E.2d 412	17
1977	Lawreszuk v. Nationwide Insurance	392 N.E.2d 1094	17

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 H. Victor on?: William H. Victor was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

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12 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).