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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1980 / Served to 1988

J. R. Campbell

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

J. R. Campbell was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1990
Tenure: 1980–1988 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Willamette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 339 published opinions for the court (1930–1988), plus 32 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Middleton (320 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. 64 of these were attributed to Campbell 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
1983	State v. Middleton†	657 P.2d 1215	320
1982	State v. Caraher· Concurrence†	653 P.2d 942	274
1987	State v. Tanner· Concurrence†	745 P.2d 757	194
1985	State v. Campbell· Dissent†	705 P.2d 694	124
1984	Delaney v. Taco Time International, Inc.· Dissent†	681 P.2d 114	122
1987	Lewis v. Oregon Beauty Supply Co.†	733 P.2d 430	102
1985	Totten v. New York Life Insurance	696 P.2d 1082	90
1984	State v. Lerch	677 P.2d 678	87
1988	State v. Affeld	764 P.2d 220	78
1984	State v. Hubbard· Concurrence†	688 P.2d 1311	76
1986	State v. Smith	725 P.2d 894	64
1983	State v. Mains· Concurrence†	669 P.2d 1112	64
1982	State v. Wedge	652 P.2d 773	64
1984	State v. Perry	688 P.2d 827	63
1983	In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Lasswell· Dissent†	673 P.2d 855	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 393 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 J. R. Campbell on?: J. R. Campbell was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).