He was elected to the state legislature as a representative from Memphis in 1960.
In 1970 he was elected to the Court of Criminal Appeals, where he served until 1987 when he was appointed to the state Supreme Court by Governor Ned Ray McWherter.
O'Brien married Anna Belle Clement in 1966.
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