Selwyn N. Owen (July 5, 1836 – October 1, 1916) was a Democratic lawyer in the U.S. State of Ohio who was a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court 1883–1889. Selwyn N. Owen was born at Steuben County, New York, before his family moved to Columbus, Ohio, and then Huron County, Ohio in 1837. He attended school in Norwich Township, and . He attended Antioch College until 1856, and then was principal of a seminary in Clark County, Kentucky. He returned to Norwalk in 1857, where he read law in the offices of Cortland Kennon and Gideon T. Stewart. He enrolled in Cincinnati Law School in 1861, and graduated in 1862.