Robert Edward Jones | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
Assumed office May 1, 2000 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
In office April 30,1990 –May 1,2000 | |
Appointed by | George H. W. Bush |
Preceded by | James M. Burns |
Succeeded by | Michael W. Mosman |
84th Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | |
In office 1983–1990 | |
Appointed by | Victor G. Atiyeh |
Preceded by | Jacob Tanzer |
Succeeded by | Susan P. Graber |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Edward Jones July 5,1927 Portland,Oregon,U.S. |
Education | University of Hawaiʻi (BA) Lewis &Clark College (LLB) |
Robert Edward Jones (born July 5,1927) [1] 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.
Jones was nominated by President George H. W. Bush on February 20,1990,to a seat vacated by Judge James M. Burns. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 27,1990,and received commission on April 30,1990. Assumed senior status on May 1,2000.
Jones was born in 1927 in Portland,Oregon. [2] There he attended Grant High School. [3] After high school Jones joined the United States Naval Reserve and attended the University of Hawaiʻi where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. [2] He then enrolled at the Lewis &Clark Law School in Portland where he graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Laws. [2] While in the Naval Reserve he served in the Judge Advocate General Corps from 1949 to 1987. [2]
After law school Jones entered private legal practice in Portland where he remained until 1963. [2] In 1963 he entered politics when he served in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican representing Portland. [4] He resigned,however,before the special session held later that year. [5] Jones resigned in order to become a circuit judge in Multnomah County,where he remained until 1982. [2]
On December 16,1982,Jones was appointed by Oregon Governor Victor G. Atiyeh to the Oregon Supreme Court. [6] [7] He replaced Jacob Tanzer who had resigned. [7] One of the most notable cases Jones authored the opinion in was State v. Henry ,which declared unconstitutional all Oregon obscenity laws then binding. Jones served on Oregon's highest court until April 30,1990,when he resigned. [7]
On February 20,1990,Jones was nominated to become a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon by nominated by President George H. W. Bush to replace Judge James M. Burns. [2] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 27 and then received his federal commission on April 30,1990. [2] Jones took senior status on May 1,2000. [2]
As a federal judge he upheld Oregon's Assisted Suicide law against a federal challenge in April 2002. [8] U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft had challenged the law based on federal laws concerning controlled substances. [8] In 2003 [9] to 2004 he was the presiding judge of the case involving Mike Hawash of the Portland Seven in which Hawash received a seven-year sentence for conspiring to fight in Afghanistan for the Taliban against United States forces. [10] Then in 2005 he ruled against the Bush administration in their efforts to reduce protection of gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act. [11]
Jones is a former president of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association,an adjunct member of the Lewis &Clark Law School faculty,part of the National Judicial College,and a faculty member of the American Academy of Judicial Education. [12]
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