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 an American jurist who served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review,and 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.
The University of Oregon School of Law is a public law school in the U.S. state of Oregon. Housed in the Knight Law Center,it is Oregon's only state funded law school. The school,founded in 1884,is located on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene,on the corner of 15th and Agate streets,overlooking Hayward Field.
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.
Charles Byron Bellinger was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland,Oregon. A native of Illinois,he also served as a state circuit court judge in Oregon,fought in the Modoc War in 1873,and was a newspaper editor. Politically,he previously served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as clerk to the Oregon Supreme Court.
James Leo Ryan is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
William G. East was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Owen Murphy Panner was an American attorney and jurist from Oregon who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Anna Jaeger Brown is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Timothy D. DeGiusti is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma as well as the judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
James Martin Fitzgerald was an American lawyer and judge. He served as an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 1972 to 1975,and resigned that position when he was appointed to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.
Stephen P. Friot is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Bruce Marion Van Sickle was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota.
Edward Thaxter Gignoux was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine.
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.
Morell Edward Sharp was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Gus Jerome Solomon was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
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.
