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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1911 / Served to 1941

Henry J. Bean

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Henry J. Bean was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1911. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1853–1941
Tenure: 1911–1941 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1911	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bean authored 909 published opinions for the court (1895–1940), plus 40 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: In re Willow Creek (65 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. 484 of these were attributed to Bean 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
1914	In re Willow Creek†	74 Or. 592	65
1923	Re Determination of Water Rights of Hood River.	227 P. 1065	63
1920	Griffin v. Griffin†	95 Or. 78	58
1931	Monahan v. Funk	3 P.2d 778	57
1933	Morrison v. Clackamas County	18 P.2d 814	51
1939	Grider v. Turnbow· Dissent	94 P.2d 285	50
1917	State v. Morris†	83 Or. 429	49
1927	State v. Lee	253 P. 533	47
1930	Martin v. Cambas	293 P. 601	46
1929	In Re Water Rights of Deschutes River	294 P. 1049	46
1922	Stark v. State Industrial Accident Commission†	103 Or. 80	45
1911	Lee Tung v. Burkhart†	59 Or. 194	41
1919	State v. Savage†	96 Or. 53	38
1911	Krebs Hop Co. v. Livesley†	59 Or. 574	38
1914	State v. Chapin†	74 Or. 346	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 980 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 Henry J. Bean on?: Henry J. Bean was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

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30 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).