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 2011 / Served to 2012

Yvette McGee Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Yvette McGee Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1960 · age 66
Tenure: 2011–2012 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 23 published opinions for the court (2011–2012), plus 3 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hunter (787 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. 18 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
2011	State v. Hunter†	2011 Ohio 6524	787
2011	State v. Wilson†	2011 Ohio 2669	355
2011	Sunoco, Inc. (R & M) v. Toledo Edison Co.†	2011 Ohio 2720	149
2011	State ex rel. Doner v. Zody†	2011 Ohio 6117	131
2012	State v. Harris	2012 Ohio 1908	120
2012	State v. Billiter	2012 Ohio 5144	111
2012	In re J.V.· Concurrence†	2012 Ohio 4961	88
2011	Rhodes v. City of New Philadelphia†	2011 Ohio 3279	82
2012	Ruther v. Kaiser· Concurrence†	2012 Ohio 5686	65
2011	Wilhelm-Kissinger v. Kissinger†	2011 Ohio 2317	61
2011	In re C.B.· Concurrence†	2011 Ohio 2899	55
2012	State v. Palmer	2012 Ohio 580	52
2012	State Ex Rel. Teamsters Local Union No. 436 v. Board of County Commissioners	2012 Ohio 1861	51
2012	Havel v. Villa St. Joseph· Dissent†	2012 Ohio 552	39
2012	Rowell v. Smith· Concurrence†	2012 Ohio 4313	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 31 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 Yvette McGee Brown on?: Yvette McGee 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).