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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1925 / Served to 1950

Harry H. Belt

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Harry H. Belt was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1950
Tenure: 1925–1950 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Belt authored 660 published opinions for the court (1915–1950), plus 22 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Cowgill, Adm'r v. Boock, Adm'r (128 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. 15 of these were attributed to Belt 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
1950	Cowgill, Adm'r v. Boock, Adm'r	218 P.2d 445	128
1945	State v. Cram· Dissent	160 P.2d 283	69
1930	Judson v. Bee Hive Auto Service Co.†	136 Or. 1	69
1926	Murphy v. Hawthorne	244 P. 79	69
1942	Hotelling v. Walther	130 P.2d 944	68
1945	Fullerton v. Lamm· Dissent	165 P.2d 63	67
1926	U'ren v. Bagley	245 P. 1074	67
1924	State v. McDaniel· Separate	237 P. 373	65
1938	Selman v. Shirley· Dissent	91 P.2d 312	62
1947	Perry v. Oregon Liquor Control Commission	177 P.2d 406	61
1949	State v. Pace	212 P.2d 755	60
1938	Oregon Creamery Manufacturers Ass'n v. White	78 P.2d 572	57
1928	Gill v. Selling	267 P. 812	54
1939	State v. Rosser· Separate	91 P.2d 295	53
1944	State v. Folkes· Concurrence	150 P.2d 17	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 717 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 Harry H. Belt on?: Harry H. Belt was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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25 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).