Rives Kistler is an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. After college and law school on the East Coast,he moved to Oregon where he worked in private practice before joining the Oregon Department of Justice. Kistler then joined the Oregon Court of Appeals before appointment to the Oregon Supreme Court in 2003.
Hall Stoner Lusk was an American jurist in the state of Oregon. A native of the District of Columbia,he became a judge in Oregon,serving in both the Oregon circuit courts and later on the Oregon Supreme Court,including time as its chief justice. A Democrat,he was appointed to the United States Senate for eight months in 1960 after the death of sitting Senator Richard L. Neuberger.
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 Donald "Skip" Durham Jr. 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.
Berkeley "Bud" Lent was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He was the 38th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,serving from 1982 to 1983. Elected to the court in 1976,Lent remained until 1988. Previously,the native Oregonian also was elected to both branches of the Oregon legislature,including time as the Senate Majority Leader,and was a county circuit court judge. Lent also served as a mediator and senior judge in Oregon.
Arno Harry Denecke was an American jurist born in Illinois. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1963 to 1982,and as the 37th Chief Justice of the court from 1976 until leaving the bench. The World War II veteran retired from the United States Army at the rank of colonel in 1974.
Richard William Riggs was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 94th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1998 to 2006.
Thomas Allen McBride was an American attorney and judge in Oregon. He was the 20th Chief Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court serving three times as chief between 1913 and 1927. Overall he served on Oregon’s highest court from 1909 till his death in 1930.
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.
John Ora Bailey was an American judge and politician in the state of Oregon. He was the 27th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,serving on Oregon’s highest court from 1933 to 1950. Bailey also served in the Oregon House of Representatives and the Oregon State Senate. A native of Iowa and Harvard graduate,he began his public service as an assistant attorney general.
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.
Jacob B. Tanzer was an American attorney in the state of Oregon. Prior to private practice Tanzer served as the 81st justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. He also served on the Oregon Court of Appeals,was a deputy district attorney for Multnomah County,Oregon,and worked for the United States Department of Justice.
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.
Dean Frederick Bryson was an American attorney in the state of Oregon,United States. He was the 77th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously he was a circuit court judge for Multnomah County,Oregon,a legislator in the Oregon House of Representatives,served in the Oregon Senate,and was president of the state bar association.
Ralph Milo Holman was an attorney and judge in the state of Oregon,United States. He was the 74th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously he was a circuit court judge for Clackamas County,Oregon. His great uncle was United States Senator Rufus C. Holman.
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.
Richard C. Baldwin is a former American judge,who served as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 2013 to 2017. A native of California,he was a legal aide attorney prior to joining the Oregon Supreme Court and returned to private practice after retirement from the court.
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.
The Multnomah Bar Association (MBA) is a voluntary bar association located in Portland,Oregon. The organization is also sometimes referred to as the Multnomah County Bar Association. Although named after Multnomah County membership in the association is open to all lawyers in the State of Oregon. The present MBA was founded in 1906. There was an earlier group of attorneys,also called the Multnomah Bar Association,which appears to have dissolved some time in the early 1900s.
