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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1971 / Served to 1973

Lloyd Odom Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Lloyd Odom Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–1993
Tenure: 1971–1973 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 8 published opinions for the court (1972), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. Trydle v. Industrial Commission (91 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 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
1972	State ex rel. Trydle v. Industrial Commission†	32 Ohio St. 2d 257	91
1972	Howard v. Allen†	30 Ohio St. 2d 130	45
1972	State v. Jackson†	32 Ohio St. 2d 203	31
1972	Sears v. City of Cincinnati· Concurrence†	31 Ohio St. 2d 157	20
1972	State v. Oliver†	32 Ohio St. 2d 109	19
1972	Beatrice Foods Co. v. Porterfield†	30 Ohio St. 2d 50	18
1972	State ex rel. Minus v. Brown· Dissent†	30 Ohio St. 2d 75	12
1972	State v. Albini· Dissent†	31 Ohio St. 2d 27	9
1972	In re Contempt of Common Pleas Court†	30 Ohio St. 2d 182	8
1972	Richardson-Merrell, Inc. v. Porterfield†	32 Ohio St. 2d 281	7
1972	Masheter v. Blaisdell†	30 Ohio St. 2d 8	7
1972	State ex rel. Schwartz v. Brown· Dissent†	32 Ohio St. 2d 4	6
1972	Kafel v. Republic Steel Corp.· Concurrence†	30 Ohio St. 2d 55	5
1972	State v. Reynolds· Dissent†	32 Ohio St. 2d 101	3
1972	Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Ry. Co. v. Public Utilities Commission· Dissent†	31 Ohio St. 2d 81	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 Lloyd Odom Brown on?: Lloyd Odom Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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1 year 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).