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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1988 / Served to 1998

Edward N. Fadeley

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Edward N. Fadeley was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1988–1998 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Oregon

Judicial Record

In our data, Fadeley authored 81 published opinions for the court (1989–1998), plus 43 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Cunningham (277 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. 115 of these were attributed to Fadeley 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
1994	State v. Cunningham· Dissent†	880 P.2d 431	277
1993	Brumnett v. Psychiatric Security Review Board	848 P.2d 1194	217
1990	Drews v. EBI Companies†	795 P.2d 531	214
1990	State v. Smith· Dissent†	791 P.2d 836	205
1990	State v. Moen· Dissent†	786 P.2d 111	189
1994	Don't Waste Oregon Committee v. Energy Facility Siting Council· Dissent†	881 P.2d 119	178
1992	Priest v. Pearce· Concurrence†	840 P.2d 65	177
1997	State Ex Rel. Huddleston v. Sawyer· Dissent†	932 P.2d 1145	171
1991	State v. Walton· Dissent†	809 P.2d 81	149
1992	Onita Pacific Corp. v. Trustees of Bronson· Concurrence†	843 P.2d 890	144
1993	State v. Rodriguez· Concurrence†	854 P.2d 399	138
1992	State v. Langley· Dissent†	839 P.2d 692	134
1992	State v. Williams· Dissent†	828 P.2d 1006	125
1993	Buchler v. Oregon Corrections Div.	853 P.2d 798	120
1994	Clark v. Jackson County	836 P.2d 710	109

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 Edward N. Fadeley on?: Edward N. Fadeley 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).