Joseph “Judge Joe” Brown (born July 5, 1947) is an American lawyer. He is a former Shelby County, Tennessee, Criminal Court judge and a former arbiter of the arbitration-based reality court show, Judge Joe Brown.
Judge Joe Brown is an American arbitration-based reality court show that premiered on September 14, 1998 and ran through the 2012–13 television season. The first-run syndication series entered its 15th and final season on September 10, 2012, also regularly airing in high-definition for the first time beginning in that same season as well.
The set of Judge Joe Brown was directly beside the set of Judge Judy within the same facility, Sunset Bronson Studios. After Judge Joe Brown’s 2013 cancellation, however, the space was used for the courtroom series Paternity Court for a season (2013–present), followed by the court show Hot Bench (2014–present).[7] As Judge Judy was and still is, Judge Joe Brown was both produced by Big Ticket Television and syndicated by CBS Television Distribution (CTD), the successor company to their previous distributors: Worldvision Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television, and CBS Paramount Domestic Television.
The show was syndicated in the US, and aired during daytime hours. It aired on CTV in Canada and Fox8 in Australia. Like the majority of television court shows, Judge Joe Brown is a form of binding arbitration. The show’s producers maintain the appearance of a civil courtroom.
