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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1941 / Served to 1958

James T. Brand

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

James T. Brand was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1964
Tenure: 1941–1958 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Oberlin College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brand authored 240 published opinions for the court (1941–1958), plus 17 dissents and 11 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. 113 of these were attributed to Brand 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· Dissent†	218 P.2d 445	128
1955	State of Oregon v. Pirkey†	281 P.2d 698	127
1954	State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Burk	265 P.2d 783	110
1952	State of Oregon v. Long	244 P.2d 1033	102
1942	Cabell v. City of Cottage Grove· Dissent	130 P.2d 1013	93
1952	Rea v. Rea†	245 P.2d 884	90
1949	Van Lom v. Schneiderman· Dissent	210 P.2d 461	89
1943	Prime v. Prime	139 P.2d 550	83
1952	Huffman v. Alexander†	253 P.2d 289	82
1945	State v. Dennis	161 P.2d 670	71
1951	Anderson v. Alexander	230 P.2d 770	69
1945	State v. Cram· Concurrence	160 P.2d 283	69
1958	State v. Hicks	325 P.2d 794	67
1945	Briggs v. Briggs	165 P.2d 772	63
1951	Gow v. Multnomah Hotel, Inc.†	228 P.2d 791	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 273 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 James T. Brand on?: James T. Brand was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).