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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1988 / Served to 2000

George Van Hoomissen

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

George Van Hoomissen was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1988–2000 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Portland
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoomissen authored 160 published opinions for the court (1988–2000), plus 24 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Portland General Electric Co. v. Bureau of Labor & Industries (2,400 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. 122 of these were attributed to Hoomissen 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
1993	Portland General Electric Co. v. Bureau of Labor & Industries†	859 P.2d 1143	2,400
1993	State v. Ehly	854 P.2d 421	660
2000	State v. Wyatt†	15 P.3d 22	659
1994	State v. Cunningham	880 P.2d 431	277
1990	State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Geist†	796 P.2d 1193	234
1999	State v. Rangel†	977 P.2d 379	185
1990	State v. Montez†	789 P.2d 1352	170
1989	State v. King†	768 P.2d 391	170
1991	Trujillo v. Maass· Concurrence†	822 P.2d 703	164
1991	State v. Walton	809 P.2d 81	149
1999	State v. Thompson†	971 P.2d 879	139
1992	State v. Meyrick	831 P.2d 666	136
1995	Davis v. O'BRIEN	891 P.2d 1307	135
2000	Stranahan v. Fred Meyer, Inc.· Concurrence†	11 P.3d 228	124
1999	Lakin v. Senco Products, Inc.†	987 P.2d 463	114

Showing the 15 most-cited of 199 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 George Van Hoomissen on?: George Van Hoomissen was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).