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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Oregon / Joined 2003 / Active

Darleen Ortega

Judge, Court of Appeals of Oregon

Darleen Ortega is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Oregon, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Oregon	–	–

Education

George Fox University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ortega authored 1,652 published opinions for the court (2003–2026), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ardizzone (106 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. 352 of these were attributed to Ortega 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
2015	State v. Ardizzone†	270 Or. App. 666	106
2010	Department of Human Services v. C. Z.	236 P.3d 791	85
2009	State v. Kammeyer	203 P.3d 274	57
2007	State v. Rodriguez	175 P.3d 471	46
2004	State v. Fuerte-Coria	100 P.3d 773	46
2009	Doe v. Medford School District 549C	221 P.3d 787	45
2008	State v. Maiden	191 P.3d 803	45
2015	State v. Inman· Concurrence†	275 Or. App. 920	42
2014	Department of Human Services v. E. M.†	264 Or. App. 76	42
2008	State v. Ashbaugh	200 P.3d 149	42
2005	State v. Ferguson	119 P.3d 794	41
2015	Department of Human Services v. A. L.†	268 Or. App. 391	40
2011	Department of Human Services v. N. S.	265 P.3d 792	39
2009	State v. Kanuch	217 P.3d 1082	39
2010	Livingston v. METROPOLITAN PEDIATRICS, LLC	227 P.3d 796	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,659 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 Court of Appeals of Oregon reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Darleen Ortega on?: Darleen Ortega is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Sources

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