The United States District Court for the District of Oregon is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the state of Oregon. It was created in 1859 when the state was admitted to the Union. Appellate jurisdiction belongs to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Matthew P. Deady served as its first judge. Marco A. Hernandez is the current chief judge.
Edward Leavy was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former judge for the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Prior to these positions,Leavy was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Matthew Paul Deady was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859,at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland,as the sole Judge until his death in 1893. While on the court he presided over the trial that led to the United States Supreme Court decision of Pennoyer v. Neff concerning personal jurisdiction.
Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers are located in Portland,Oregon.
Ancer Lee Haggerty is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. At the time of his nomination to the federal bench by President Clinton in 1993,he was serving as an Oregon circuit court judge.
William Alexander Ekwall was an American politician,lawyer,and journalist who served one term as a United States representative from Oregon from 1935 to 1937. From 1942 to 1956,he served as a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Robert Edward Jones is an American politician and judge in Oregon. He serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland. A Portland native,he previously served as the 84th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
Johnnie Blakeney Rawlinson is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
Helen Jackson Frye was an American judge and attorney in the state of Oregon. She served as a judge of the Oregon Circuit Court and later as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Karin Johanna Immergut is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
James Milton Burns was an American attorney and judge in Oregon. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Harry Thomas Edwards is an American jurist and legal scholar. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1980 to 2005,taking senior status in 2005,and a professor of law at the New York University School of Law.
David Alan Ezra is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Since January 2013,Ezra has been designated by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court to serve on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas,San Antonio Division to help ease the heavy workload for the federal judges in Texas.
James Alger Fee was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. A veteran of the United States Army,his first judicial position was with the Oregon Circuit Court. While a federal judge he made national news for his decision during World War II regarding the application of the exclusion orders that had forced those of Japanese heritage from the West Coast.
Susan Pia Graber is an American attorney and jurist. She is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A native of Oklahoma,she was the 90th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1990 to 1998. She served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1988 to 1990.
Michael J. McShane is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. He previously served as a state court judge on the Oregon Multnomah County Circuit Court from 2001 to 2013.
Adrienne Camille Nelson is an American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. She previously served as a judge on the Multnomah County Circuit Court from 2006 to 2018 and a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 2018 to 2023.
Danielle Jo Forrest,formerly known as Danielle Jo Hunsaker,is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Forrest was an Oregon state court judge for the Washington County Circuit Court from 2017 to 2019.
The Multnomah County Circuit Court,which composes the 4th Judicial District of the Oregon Circuit Court system,is the general jurisdiction trial court of Multnomah County,Oregon. Judith Matarazzo is the presiding judge of the Court,serving with 37 others. The chief prosecutor is Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt.
