How do judges of the Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1963 / Served to 1982

Arno H. Denecke

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Arno H. Denecke was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1993
Tenure: 1963–1982 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Judicial Record

In our data, Denecke authored 555 published opinions for the court (1963–1983), plus 62 dissents and 73 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Robertson (334 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 551 of these were attributed to Denecke by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1982	State v. Robertson	649 P.2d 569	334
1975	Nees v. Hocks	536 P.2d 512	305
1981	Hall v. May Department Stores Co.· Dissent†	637 P.2d 126	203
1965	State v. Neely†	398 P.2d 482	151
1980	Megdal v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners· Concurrence†	605 P.2d 273	147
1969	State v. Cloman†	456 P.2d 67	145
1978	Timberline Equipment Co., Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance†	576 P.2d 1244	136
1979	State v. Haynes· Concurrence†	602 P.2d 272	129
1973	State v. Van Hooser	511 P.2d 359	115
1982	Brown v. Oregon State Bar	648 P.2d 1289	113
1975	State v. Washington· Concurrence†	273 Or. 829	111
1981	State v. Shumway	630 P.2d 796	108
1969	State v. Gann	463 P.2d 570	103
1970	Smith v. Cooper†	475 P.2d 78	102
1971	State v. Woolard	484 P.2d 314	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 692 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Arno H. Denecke on?: Arno H. Denecke was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 years on the Oregon Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).