Judge Peter M. Handwork became a court of appeals judge January 1, 1983 after serving as a Lucas County Common Pleas judge (1977-1983). He obtained his B.A. degree from Lake Forest College in 1963, studied law at the University of Toledo and was awarded a J.D. in 1966. He was engaged in the general practice of law with Watkins, Bates & Handwork and Eastman, Stichter, Smith & Bergman after his admission to the bar and also served as an assistant U.S. attorney. Judge Handwork held the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Health and Human Services at the University of Toledo where he taught for 26 years in the Department of Undergraduate Legal Specialties. He coached the university's inter-collegiate mock trial team for nineteen years. Judge Handwork and his wife Claudia are the parents of six children and have twelve grandchildren.

Judge Mark L. Pietrykowski was elected to the Sixth District Court of Appeals in 1998 and reelected in 2004. Judge Pietrykowski received his B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1976 and received his J.D. degree from Ohio Northern University School of Law in 1979. Upon admission to the bar in 1979, he began work as a law clerk to the Honorable Walter J. Krasniewski, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division. In 1981, he entered private practice and joined the law firm of Manahan, Pietrykowski, Bamman, and Delaney concentrating in the civil litigation field. Judge Pietrykowski has previously held elected offices, serving on Toledo City Council (1985-1992), Vice Mayor (1987-1989), and the Board of Lucas County Commissioners (1992-1999). Judge Pietrykowski is married with three children.

Judge Arlene Singer was elected to the Sixth District Court of Appeals in 2002, after serving twelve years on the Toledo Municipal Court bench. She received her B.A. in 1972 from the University of Toledo and J.D. in 1976 from its College of Law, after which she a practiced law before taking the bench. She was an assistant Lucas County prosecutor (1989-1990) and a state legislator in the 117th Ohio General Assembly. Judge Singer is a member of the Toledo Bar Association serving on various committees and was a member of its Board of Trustees (2000-2006.) She is also a member of the Ohio State, Lucas County, Toledo and Ohio Women’s Bar Associations, American Bar Association, Toledo Bar Foundation, the Ohio State Bar Foundation, and other community organizations. In 2003 she was appointed to the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Ohio Supreme Court, serving as Vice-chair for 2007 and chair for 2008 and serves on the Ohio Supreme Court Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct. She is married and has two children.

Judge William J. Skow was elected to the Sixth District Court of Appeals of Ohio in 2004, following more than 22 years as a trial judge. He was appointed to the Toledo Municipal Court bench in 1983, later elected, and served until 1986, when Governor Celeste appointed him to the Lucas County Common Pleas Court, where he served until assuming his current duties. Judge Skow, a lifelong Toledoan, received his B.A. in American Government from Harvard College in 1963, and his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1966. After passing the Ohio bar exam, he was inducted into the U.S. Army, completing a two-year stint in 1969, which included a year in Vietnam, for which service he was awarded the Bonze Star Medal. He began a fourteen year general practice of law later that year, chiefly with the firm of Konop, Skow, Schlachter and Weisberg, and also spent four years on Capitol Hill in Washington, working as the Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Congressman Thomas Ludlow Ashley.

Judge Skow was born in 1941 in Toledo, Ohio. He is married to Felicia and has two daughters.

Judge Thomas J. Osowik was elected to the Sixth District Court of Appeals in November of 2006. Prior to coming to the Court of Appeals, he was a trial judge for more than 15 years. He was appointed to the Toledo Municipal Court in January of 1991 by Governor Celeste and subsequently elected. He continued to serve as a municipal court judge until elected to the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas in 2004. Judge Osowik is a lifelong Toledoan who received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toledo in 1977 and his J.D. degree from the University of Toledo College of Law in 1981. He engaged in the private practice of law in Northwood, Ohio for over eight years before assuming the bench. While engaging in the private practice, Judge Osowik was also an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio under Attorney General Anthony Celebrezze, Jr. Judge Osowik was born in Toledo in 1955 and is married to Rosemarie and the father of four sons.