Stephen Powell

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Stephen Powell
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Republican Party

Prior offices
Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals
Successor: Melena Siebert

Education

Bachelor's

Heidelberg College, 1977

Law

University of Dayton School of Law, 1981 

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Stephen Powell (Republican Party) was a judge of the Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals. He assumed office in 1995. He left office on February 8, 2025.

Powell (Republican Party) ran for re-election for judge of the Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018.

Education

Powell received his undergraduate degree from Heidelberg College in 1977 and his J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law 1981.[1]

Career

Powell served as a referee in the Butler County Domestic, Juvenile and Probate Courts from 1984 to 1989. He then became a judge for the Butler County Courts. In 1991, Powell joined the Butler County Probate Court. He held this position until he joined the Twelfth District Court of Appeals in 1995.[1]

Awards and associations

  • 2011-2012: Chief justice-elect, Ohio Courts of Appeals Judges Association [2]
  • 2010-2011: Secretary/treasurer, Ohio Courts of Appeals Judges Association [3]

Elections

2024

See also: Ohio intermediate appellate court elections, 2024

Stephen Powell did not file to run for re-election.

2018

General election

General election for Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals

Incumbent Stephen Powell won election in the general election for Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Stephen Powell
Stephen Powell (R)
 
100.0
 
260,804

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 260,804
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals

Incumbent Stephen Powell advanced from the Republican primary for Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals on May 8, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Stephen Powell
Stephen Powell
 
100.0
 
63,250

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.

Total votes: 63,250
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Selection method

The judges of the Ohio District Courts of Appeals are selected through partisan primary elections followed by nonpartisan general elections.[4] Courts of appeals candidates are chosen in their respective appellate districts.[4] In the event of a midterm vacancy, the governor appoints a replacement. The appointee serves until the next general election taking place 40 or more days after the vacancy occurred. If re-elected, the judge serves the remainder of his or her predecessor's unexpired term.[4] In 2007, Governor Ted Strickland issued an executive order creating a judicial appointment recommendation panel to assist in making new appointments. The panel evaluates applicants and advises the governor, but the governor is not bound to the panel's recommendations.[4]

Qualifications

To serve on the court, a judge must be:

  • a district resident;
  • at least six years in the practice of law; and
  • under the age of 70.[4]

Selection of the chief judge

The chief judge of the Ohio District Courts of Appeal is chosen by peer vote and serves for one year.[4]

2012

Powell was re-elected to the Twelfth District Court of Appeals after running unopposed on November 6, 2012.[5]

See also: Ohio judicial elections, 2012

Noteworthy cases

In re: Estate of Catherine De Saint-Rat

In 2008, Powell endorsed the seizure of a private estate by an Ohio institution and the subsequent suits brought by a lawyer then working as an assistant attorney general for the same institution. A careful examination of the three page will of the deceased did not mention the institution in question nor any other Ohio institution. The same panel of judges was hearing this same assistant attorney general argue various other institutional cases at the time. In the October 2007 oral argument, this judge clearly stated that an option to purchase cannot last 60 days. This oral argument was subsequently suppressed by the Twelfth District Court of Appeals.[6]

See also

External links

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named bio
  2. ↑ Ohio Supreme Court, Press Release, "Appellate Judges Elected to 2012 Association Offices," September 12, 2011
  3. ↑ Ohio Supreme Court, "Appeals Court Association Elects Judges as 2011 Officers," September 9, 2010
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Ohio," archived October 3, 2014
  5. ↑ The Ohio Secretary of State, "Official Results for 2012 General Election, November 6, 2012," accessed July 5, 2014
  6. ↑ Twelfth District Court of Appeals, Butler County, "In re: Estate of Catherine De Saint-Rat, Case No: CA2007-02-052," May 5, 2008

Political offices
Preceded by
- 		Ohio Twelfth District Court of Appeals
1995-2025		 Succeeded by
Melena Siebert (R)


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