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# Robert C. Winkler

Hamilton Co. Common Pleas Court · Common Pleas Judge

## Profile

- Court: Hamilton Co. Common Pleas Court
- State: Ohio
- Role: Common Pleas Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### remote hearing exhibits

Scope: statewide

Ohio's statewide virtual-court guidance tells courts to include instructions for submitting exhibits or notifying the court of witnesses when remote-hearing information is sent to participants.

Evidence excerpt: Instructions for submitting exhibits or notifying the court of witnesses.

[Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)
Source checked: 2026-07-26

### remote hearing ground rules

Scope: statewide

Ohio's statewide virtual-court guidance recommends advance ground rules for documents, exhibits, screen sharing, and pre-marking exhibits for remote hearings.

Evidence excerpt: Documents: Share any documents/exhibits that will be reviewed in advance. Use the share screen function while documents are being discussed during the hearing. Request that the documents are pre-marked for exhibit purposes.

[Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)
Source checked: 2026-07-26

### remote recording

Scope: statewide

Ohio's statewide virtual-court guidance states that litigants, attorneys, and the public should be instructed not to record the hearing.

Evidence excerpt: The court should instruct the litigants, attorneys, and the public to not record the hearing.

[Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://www.ohiojudges.org/directory/ojc-directory/)
- [Official roster](https://www.ohiojudges.org/directory/ojc-directory/)
- [Ohio Judicial Conference Directory official judicial roster](https://www.ohiojudges.org/directory/ojc-directory/)
- [Virtual Public Access to Ohio Court Proceedings](https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/virtual-court/)

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## Biography

### Professional career

- Ohio First District Court of Appeals Judge, 2019–Present Sat as an assigned visiting judge on the Supreme Court of Ohio in February 2024
- Private Practice Attorney Worked in civil practice 1987–1990 at McIntosh, McIntosh & Knabe
- Before becoming a judge, I served as an Assistant Hamilton County, Ohio Prosecutor

### Education

- B.B.A., University of Cincinnati (1983)

### Additional information

- Chair 2020–2022) Community involvement: youth athletics coach
- Served as Presiding and Administrative Judge in 2015
- The University of Akron Robert C. Winkler – Judicial Votes Count - University of Akron I was elected to the Court of Common Pleas in 2006, 2008, and 2014
- Returned to private practice 1997–2002
- Long‐serving Ohio jurist whose career spans the Hamilton County Municipal Court, the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, and the Ohio First District Court of Appeals, with education from the University of Cincinnati and Chase College of Law