Mark Odom Hatfield was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A Republican,he served eight years as Governor of Oregon,followed by 30 years as one of its United States senators,including time as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A native Oregonian,he served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II after graduating from Willamette University. After the war he earned a graduate degree from Stanford University before returning to Oregon and Willamette as a professor.
The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem,Oregon,near the capitol building on State Street. The building was finished in 1914 and also houses the state's law library,while the courtroom is also used by the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Virginia Lynn Linder is an American judge from Oregon who served as the 99th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from January 2007 until January 2016. She served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1997 until her election to the state's Supreme Court in the 2006,an electoral campaign in which she defeated former Labor Commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Roberts.
Norma Jean Paulus was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Nebraska,she was raised in Eastern Oregon before becoming a lawyer. A Republican,she first held political office as a representative in the Oregon House of Representatives,and then became the first woman elected to statewide public office in Oregon when she became Oregon Secretary of State in 1977. Paulus later served as Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction for nine years. She made unsuccessful bids to become Governor of Oregon and United States Senator. Prior to her death on February 28,2019,Paulus lived in Portland,where she was involved with several non-profit groups and sponsored a ballot measure to create open primaries in Oregon's statewide elections.
Paul J. De Muniz is a retired American judge in the state of Oregon. He is the first Hispanic Chief Justice in the history of the Oregon Supreme Court. He was elected to the court in 2000,and elected as chief justice in 2006. He won re-election in May 2006 for another six-year term on the state's highest court. De Muniz previously served on the Oregon Court of Appeals for ten years.
W. Michael Gillette is an American attorney and retired judge in the state of Oregon. He was a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,where he served from 1986 until 2010. A graduate of Harvard Law School,he was previously a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1977 to 1986.
Robert D. "Skip" Durham is a retired justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously,Durham was a judge for the Oregon Court of Appeals and a lawyer in private practice.
Thomas "Tom" A. Balmer is a former justice and chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. A native of Washington,he was appointed to the court in 2001 as a justice,later serving as chief justice from 2012 to 2018. He retired on December 31,2022.
Richard William Riggs was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 94th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1998 to 2006.
Susan M. Leeson is an American attorney and former judge in the state of Oregon. She was the 94th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Prior to her appointment to the supreme court,the Utah native served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1993 to 1998.
Betty Cantrell Roberts was an American politician and judge from the U.S. state of Oregon. She was the 83rd justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. She was the first woman to serve on the Oregon Supreme Court,and had also been the first woman on the Oregon Court of Appeals. Roberts served from 1982 to 1986 on the high court and from 1977 to 1982 on the Court of Appeals.
Perkins Coie is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Seattle,Washington. Founded in 1912,it is recognized as an Am Law 50 firm. It is the largest law firm headquartered in the Pacific Northwest and has 20 offices across the United States and Asia. The firm provides corporate,commercial litigation,intellectual property,and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients,including prominent technology companies like Google,Twitter,Intel,Facebook,and Amazon. In addition to its corporate representation,the firm has represented political clients. The firm is known for its pro bono work.
George Albert Van Hoomissen is an American attorney in the state of Oregon. He previously served as the 87th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and previously served as a judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals. The Portland,Oregon native was also the district attorney for Multnomah County,Oregon,and served as a Democrat in the Oregon Legislative Assembly.
J. R. Campbell,nicknamed Doc,was an American attorney in the state of Oregon,United States. He was the 82nd justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and served on the Oregon Court of Appeals. The Navy veteran from Montana also worked as a circuit court judge in Oregon.
Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) is a private high school located in Portland,Oregon,United States operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system,the world's second largest Christian school system. The school was founded in 1910,and was previously known as Portland Union Academy,serving grades K-12. The name changed when the elementary section became its own school,Portland Adventist Elementary School in 1975. During the process,the high school section was renamed Portland Adventist Academy.
Brent Barton is a Democratic politician from the US state of Oregon. He was elected in 2008 to the Oregon House of Representatives,representing District 51,which encompasses parts of Clackamas County and Multnomah County,and includes all or part of the cities of Boring,Clackamas,Damascus,Estacada,and Oregon City. In the 2010 election,Barton ran unsuccessfully for the Oregon State Senate,declining to run for reelection to his House seat. In 2012,he ran again for the House,this time defeating Republican Steve Newgard with 51% of the vote. He retired in 2016,and was succeeded by Mark Meek.
Loyal B. Stearns was an American politician,attorney,and jurist in Oregon. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Oregon,he became a lawyer and practiced in Portland. A Republican,he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and later a judge for several courts.
Marc Erik Elias is an American Democratic Party elections lawyer. In 2020,he founded Democracy Docket,a website focused on voting rights and election litigation in the United States,and he left his position as a partner at Perkins Coie to start the Elias Law Group in 2021.
Jack L. Landau is an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. A native of Colorado,he worked in private legal practice in Oregon before he joined the Oregon Department of Justice. He served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1993 to 2011,and on the Oregon Supreme Court from 2011 to 2017.
Meagan Aileen Flynn 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.
