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 1987 / Served to 1999

William W. Young

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William W. Young was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–1999 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Young authored 576 published opinions for the court (1925–2013), plus 32 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lawson (255 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 Young 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	State v. Lawson	659 N.E.2d 362	255
1998	State v. Watson	710 N.E.2d 340	238
1995	State v. Taylor	667 N.E.2d 60	192
1998	State v. Garcia	710 N.E.2d 783	118
1996	State v. Carpenter	688 N.E.2d 1090	115
1988	Buckles v. Buckles· Concurrence	546 N.E.2d 950	106
1996	Donovan v. Donovan	674 N.E.2d 1252	95
1996	State v. Dyer	689 N.E.2d 1034	89
1993	Chaney v. Clark County Agricultural Society, Inc.	629 N.E.2d 513	87
1992	Brewer v. Brothers· Dissent	611 N.E.2d 492	81
1997	In Re Williams	687 N.E.2d 507	76
1996	In Re Anderson	688 N.E.2d 545	73
1995	State v. Nobles	665 N.E.2d 1137	69
1996	Carman v. Carman	672 N.E.2d 1093	68
1997	State v. Shepherd	701 N.E.2d 778	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 631 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 W. Young on?: William W. Young was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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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).