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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1927 / Served to 1965

George Rossman

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

George Rossman was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1927. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1967
Tenure: 1927–1965 · 38 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1927	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Chicago

Judicial Record

In our data, Rossman authored 800 published opinions for the court (1927–1965), plus 67 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: Cowgill, Adm'r v. Boock, Adm'r (128 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. 337 of these were attributed to Rossman 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	Cowgill, Adm'r v. Boock, Adm'r· Concurrence†	218 P.2d 445	128
1949	Van Lom v. Schneiderman· Concurrence	210 P.2d 461	89
1963	Perkins v. Standard Oil Co.†	383 P.2d 1002	77
1933	Spicer v. Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees	21 P.2d 187	77
1938	Noonan v. City of Portland	88 P.2d 808	76
1965	Mayor v. Dowsett	400 P.2d 234	71
1951	Anderson v. Alexander· Concurrence†	230 P.2d 770	69
1960	State v. Jackson†	356 P.2d 495	68
1960	State v. Braley· Dissent†	355 P.2d 467	65
1964	Fenton v. Aleshire· Dissent†	393 P.2d 217	63
1954	I-L Logging Co. v. Manufacturers & Wholesalers Indemnity Exchange	275 P.2d 226	63
1938	Selman v. Shirley	91 P.2d 312	62
1959	State v. Hoover†	347 P.2d 69	61
1928	Lippold v. Kidd	269 P. 210	61
1956	Schafer v. Fraser Et Ux	294 P.2d 609	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 935 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 Rossman on?: George Rossman was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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38 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).