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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1942 / Served to 1951

Arthur D. Hay

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Arthur D. Hay was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1952
Tenure: 1942–1951 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Oregon

Judicial Record

In our data, Hay authored 129 published opinions for the court (1943–1951), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Anthony v. Veatch (73 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. 28 of these were attributed to Hay 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
1950	Anthony v. Veatch†	221 P.2d 575	73
1948	State v. Smith	188 P.2d 998	64
1944	Lytle v. Payette-Oregon Slope Irrigation District	152 P.2d 934	58
1951	LEVENE ET UX. v. City of Salem†	229 P.2d 255	53
1943	Fish v. Southern Pacific Co.	145 P.2d 991	52
1946	Allen v. Multnomah County	173 P.2d 475	49
1943	Reeves v. Porta	144 P.2d 493	49
1951	Schweiger v. Solbeck†	230 P.2d 195	48
1946	Williams Et Ux. v. Capparelli	175 P.2d 153	40
1950	Webb v. Clatsop County School District No. 3	215 P.2d 368	35
1949	Tigglebeck v. Russell	213 P.2d 156	35
1943	Board of Directors of Northern Wasco County People's Utility District v. Kelly	137 P.2d 295	35
1946	Hurner v. Hurner	170 P.2d 720	33
1944	Hunter v. Allen	148 P.2d 936	32
1943	Benton County v. Allen	133 P.2d 991	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 133 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 Arthur D. Hay on?: Arthur D. Hay was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).