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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 2010 / Served to 2010

Eric Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Eric Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2010–2010

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Cleveland State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 4 published opinions for the court (2010), plus 22 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Johnson (966 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. 30 of these were attributed to Brown 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
2010	State v. Johnson†	2010 Ohio 6314	966
2010	State v. Hodge· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 6320	255
2010	Hudson v. Petrosurance, Inc.· Concurrence†	2010 Ohio 4505	194
2010	Summerville v. City of Forest Park· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 6280	119
2010	Kincaid v. Erie Insurance· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 6036	90
2010	State Ex Rel. Bardwell v. Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 5073	57
2010	DIRECTV, Inc. v. Levin· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 6279	50
2010	State v. Cook· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 6305	49
2010	State v. Chappell· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 5991	46
2010	State v. Johnson· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 6301	45
2010	In re Adoption of G.V.· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 3349	41
2010	In re Adoption of P.A.C.· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 3351	29
2010	State Ex Rel. City of Cleveland v. Sutula· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 5039	28
2010	State ex rel. Dehler v. Spatny· Dissent†	2010 Ohio 5711	27
2010	Pettiford v. Aggarwal· Concurrence†	2010 Ohio 3237	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 30 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 Supreme Court of Ohio reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Eric Brown on?: Eric Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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Joined the court in 2010. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).