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 1980

Edward H. Howell

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Edward H. Howell was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1994
Tenure: 1970–1980 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Willamette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Howell authored 317 published opinions for the court (1970–1981), plus 22 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Brennen v. City of Eugene (205 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. 261 of these were attributed to Howell 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
1979	Brennen v. City of Eugene	591 P.2d 719	205
1973	Fasano v. Board of County Com'rs of Washington Cty.	507 P.2d 23	189
1974	McEwen v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation†	528 P.2d 522	179
1974	State v. Krummacher· Dissent†	523 P.2d 1009	170
1973	Kem v. Department of Revenue†	514 P.2d 1335	143
1978	City of La Grande v. Public Employes Retirement Board· Dissent†	576 P.2d 1204	140
1979	State v. Cloutier· Concurrence†	596 P.2d 1278	135
1977	Walsh v. Consolidated Freightways, Inc.†	563 P.2d 1205	112
1975	State v. Washington†	273 Or. 829	111
1971	State v. Woolard· Dissent†	484 P.2d 314	96
1980	Jarvill v. City of Eugene	613 P.2d 1	82
1978	Beal v. Beal	577 P.2d 507	76
1976	Myers v. Cessna Aircraft Corporation†	553 P.2d 355	75
1975	Baker v. City of Milwaukie†	533 P.2d 772	70
1980	State Ex Rel. Oregonian Publishing Co. v. Deiz· Dissent†	613 P.2d 23	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 354 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 Edward H. Howell on?: Edward H. Howell was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).