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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1958 / Served to 1970

Gordon Sloan

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Gordon Sloan was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–2006
Tenure: 1958–1970 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sloan authored 380 published opinions for the court (1958–1971), plus 60 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. Cooper (102 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. 439 of these were attributed to Sloan 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
1970	Smith v. Cooper· Dissent†	475 P.2d 78	102
1967	Johnson v. State Tax Commission†	435 P.2d 302	76
1966	Oregon Newspaper Publishers Ass'n v. Peterson· Dissent†	415 P.2d 21	60
1961	State v. Kristich†	359 P.2d 1106	60
1963	Dewey v. A. F. Klaveness & Co.†	379 P.2d 560	59
1964	Gilbert v. Hoisting & Portable Engineers, Local Union No. 701· Concurrence†	390 P.2d 320	55
1968	State v. Jones†	440 P.2d 371	53
1970	Great American Insurance v. General Insurance Co. of America	475 P.2d 415	52
1966	State v. Cartwright· Dissent†	418 P.2d 822	52
1963	Alvarez v. Retail Credit Ass'n· Dissent†	381 P.2d 499	52
1964	Chaffin v. Chaffin· Concurrence†	397 P.2d 771	49
1963	Strandholm v. General Construction Co.†	382 P.2d 843	45
1961	Wheeler v. White Rock Bottling Co.· Dissent†	366 P.2d 527	42
1960	State v. Rollo†	351 P.2d 422	41
1959	Belmont v. Black· Dissent†	346 P.2d 367	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 457 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 Gordon Sloan on?: Gordon Sloan 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).