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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1982 / Served to 1986

Betty Roberts

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Betty Roberts was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1923–2011
Tenure: 1982–1986 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Portland State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Roberts authored 52 published opinions for the court (1982–1985), plus 8 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Middleton (320 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 Roberts 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
1983	State v. Middleton· Concurrence†	657 P.2d 1215	320
1983	State v. Davis· Concurrence†	666 P.2d 802	279
1982	State v. Caraher	653 P.2d 942	274
1984	State v. Atkinson· Dissent†	688 P.2d 832	164
1984	Holien v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.· Concurrence†	689 P.2d 1292	154
1982	Rennie v. Freeway Transport	656 P.2d 919	133
1983	State v. Sparklin	672 P.2d 1182	122
1984	State v. Anspach	692 P.2d 602	110
1982	State v. Roberti· Concurrence†	644 P.2d 1104	81
1982	Hewitt v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.	653 P.2d 970	73
1985	Trebesch v. Employment Division	710 P.2d 136	72
1984	State v. Painter	676 P.2d 309	71
1983	In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Lasswell· Dissent†	673 P.2d 855	61
1982	Ross v. Springfield School District No. 19	657 P.2d 188	61
1982	Matter of Marriage of McDonnal	652 P.2d 1247	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Betty Roberts on?: Betty Roberts was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).