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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1950

John O. Bailey

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

John O. Bailey was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1959
Tenure: 1933–1950 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bailey authored 374 published opinions for the court (1932–1950), plus 13 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Van Lom v. Schneiderman (89 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. 14 of these were attributed to Bailey 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
1949	Van Lom v. Schneiderman· Concurrence	210 P.2d 461	89
1944	Fox v. Galloway	148 P.2d 922	75
1945	State v. Cram	160 P.2d 283	69
1935	Van Winkle v. Fred Meyer, Inc.· Dissent	49 P.2d 1140	54
1939	State v. Rosser· Separate	91 P.2d 295	53
1934	Perozzi v. Ganiere	40 P.2d 1009	52
1939	Grider v. Turnbow	94 P.2d 285	50
1937	State v. Coats· Concurrence	74 P.2d 1102	46
1948	State v. Wilson	189 P.2d 403	42
1948	Siebert v. Siebert	199 P.2d 659	39
1943	Behnke-Walker Business College v. Multnomah County	146 P.2d 614	39
1938	Guedon v. Rooney	87 P.2d 209	39
1935	In Re Shepherd's Estate· Dissent	49 P.2d 448	39
1934	Hamilton v. Corvallis General Hospital Ass'n	30 P.2d 9	37
1940	Rosell v. State Industrial Accident Commission	95 P.2d 726	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 418 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 John O. Bailey on?: John O. Bailey 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).