How do judges of the Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 2013 / Active

David Brewer

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

David Brewer is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Oregon

Judicial Record

In our data, Brewer authored 57 published opinions for the court (2013–2018), plus 1 dissent and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Green v. Franke (286 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. 63 of these were attributed to Brewer 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
2015	Green v. Franke†	357 Or. 301	286
2014	State v. Unger· Dissent†	356 Or. 59	113
2017	Johnson v. Premo†	361 Or. 688	107
2013	State v. Backstrand· Concurrence†	354 Or. 392	103
2015	State v. Ashkins†	357 Or. 642	75
2015	Chapman v. Mayfield†	358 Or. 196	67
2014	Jenkins v. Board of Parole & Post-Prison Supervision†	356 Or. 186	67
2016	Piazza v. Kellim†	360 Or. 58	62
2016	Eklof v. Steward†	360 Or. 717	59
2014	State v. Serrano†	355 Or. 172	57
2013	Brandrup v. Recontrust Co., N.A.†	353 Or. 668	57
2017	State v. Ryan†	361 Or. 602	56
2016	State v. Simonov†	358 Or. 531	54
2016	Deckard v. Bunch†	358 Or. 754	46
2014	Bagley v. Mt. Bachelor, Inc.†	356 Or. 543	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 63 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 Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is David Brewer on?: David Brewer is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 years on the Oregon Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).