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 1985 / Served to 1990

William Herman Wolff Jr.

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

William Herman Wolff Jr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1990 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wolff authored 456 published opinions for the court (1985–2012), plus 12 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Barnett (235 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. 13 of these were attributed to Wolff 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
1991	State v. Barnett· Concurrence	596 N.E.2d 1101	235
1993	Collins v. Click Camera & Video, Inc.	621 N.E.2d 1294	210
1995	Inman v. Inman	655 N.E.2d 199	77
2008	State v. Mitchell, 21957 (2-8-2008)	2008 Ohio 493	74
1993	City of Dayton v. Combs	640 N.E.2d 863	72
2007	State v. Strozier	876 N.E.2d 1304	68
2006	Grover v. Bartsch	170 Ohio App. 3d 188	65
1985	City of Huber Heights v. Duty	500 N.E.2d 339	65
2003	State v. Ramos	801 N.E.2d 523	60
1988	State v. Keathley	562 N.E.2d 932	59
1987	Holman v. Grandview Hospital & Medical Center	524 N.E.2d 903	57
2007	Dice v. White Family Companies, Inc.	878 N.E.2d 1105	55
1993	Quisenberry v. Quisenberry	632 N.E.2d 916	55
1996	State v. Klosterman	683 N.E.2d 100	52
1996	State v. Jones	678 N.E.2d 285	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 482 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 Herman Wolff Jr. on?: William Herman Wolff Jr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).