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 1987 / Served to 1993

Herbert R. Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Herbert R. Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1987–1993 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Denison University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 121 published opinions for the court (1988–1992), plus 57 dissents and 47 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bradley (7,124 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. 217 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
1989	State v. Bradley· Dissent†	42 Ohio St. 3d 136	7,124
1992	State v. Xie· Dissent†	62 Ohio St. 3d 521	1,682
1990	State v. Nero†	56 Ohio St. 3d 106	1,637
1992	Murphy v. City of Reynoldsburg· Concurrence†	65 Ohio St. 3d 356	1,496
1991	State v. Andrews†	57 Ohio St. 3d 86	948
1988	Mitchell v. Lawson Milk Co.†	40 Ohio St. 3d 190	945
1991	State v. Franklin†	62 Ohio St. 3d 118	798
1988	State v. Hamblin†	37 Ohio St. 3d 153	773
1988	Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.· Concurrence†	36 Ohio St. 3d 100	744
1990	State v. Landrum· Concurrence†	53 Ohio St. 3d 107	737
1989	Chef Italiano Corp. v. Kent State Univ.· Concurrence†	44 Ohio St. 3d 86	682
1988	Kaechele v. Kaechele†	35 Ohio St. 3d 93	574
1990	State v. Williford†	49 Ohio St. 3d 247	541
1988	City of Xenia v. Wallace†	37 Ohio St. 3d 216	509
1989	State v. Boston· Concurrence†	46 Ohio St. 3d 108	497

Showing the 15 most-cited of 225 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 Herbert R. Brown on?: Herbert R. Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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5 years on the Supreme Court of Ohio. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).