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Thanh H. Tran: [16] First Vietnamese American male to serve as a Judge of the Clackamas County Circuit Court, Oregon (2023) Robert Johnson: [31] First African American male judge in Douglas County, Oregon (2022) Seid Beck Jr.: [3] [4] First Chinese American male to graduate from the University of Oregon School of Law (1907)
Oregon’s judiciary consists primarily of four different courts: the Oregon Supreme Court, the Oregon Tax Court, the Oregon Court of Appeals, and the Oregon circuit courts. Additionally, the OJD includes the Council on Court Procedures, the Oregon State Bar , Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability, and the Public Defense Services ...
No formal judicial system existed in the region prior to February 18, 1841, when settlers at the Champoeg Meetings, in their effort to form a Provisional Government, elected Babcock as Supreme Judge as well as four justices of the peace and a High Sheriff as minor executive position, while they failed to establish the introduction of a governor because of discontent by French-Canadian settlers.
As Oregon Voters' Pamphlets are mailed out ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, the Oregon Secretary of State’s office is clearing up why former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD ...
Oregon's state courts are courts of general jurisdiction, unlike federal courts. [11] That is, the state courts can hear all cases regardless of whether the dispute is based on state law, federal law, or a combination of both, with a few exceptions. [11] Thus the Oregon Supreme Court can hear appeals for cases based on both federal and state ...
The Oregon Legislature has debated adding additional judgeships in both 2011 and 2012. [4] Three seats were added in 2013 to bring the total to thirteen. [5] The Oregon Court of Appeals is one of the busiest appellate courts in the country, handling between 3,200 and 4,100 cases annually during a recent ten-year period. [6]
The Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday asked the state's highest court to decide whether Republican state senators who carried out a record-setting GOP walkout this year can run for reelection. The ...
Meagan Aileen Flynn [1] (born July 28, 1967) is an American judge who is the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. She previously served as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2014 to 2017. Flynn was appointed to the state’s supreme court by the Governor Kate Brown in March 2017. [2]