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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1970 / Served to 1979

Dean F. Bryson

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Dean F. Bryson was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1995
Tenure: 1970–1979 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bryson authored 250 published opinions for the court (1970–1979), plus 18 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Brown (201 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. 206 of these were attributed to Bryson 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
1972	State v. Brown· Dissent†	497 P.2d 1191	201
1973	Fasano v. Board of County Com'rs of Washington Cty.· Concurrence†	507 P.2d 23	189
1976	O'Neill v. O'Neill†	545 P.2d 97	153
1978	City of La Grande v. Public Employes Retirement Board· Dissent†	576 P.2d 1204	140
1977	Application of Portland General Elec. Co.· Dissent†	561 P.2d 154	120
1978	City of La Grande v. Public Employes Retirement Board· Dissent†	586 P.2d 765	112
1975	State v. Washington· Concurrence†	273 Or. 829	111
1971	Wiener v. Gamma Phi Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity· Dissent†	485 P.2d 18	109
1973	State v. Keller	510 P.2d 568	108
1975	State v. Hickmann	540 P.2d 1406	89
1977	State v. Flores	570 P.2d 965	86
1977	James v. Carnation Co.†	562 P.2d 1192	80
1971	State v. Douglas· Concurrence†	488 P.2d 1366	79
1977	Turman v. Central Billing Bureau, Inc.†	568 P.2d 1382	67
1973	Harding v. Bell†	508 P.2d 216	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 281 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 was Dean F. Bryson on?: Dean F. Bryson was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).