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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 2011 / Active

Jack L. Landau

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Jack L. Landau is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Lewis & Clark College
Lewis & Clark College

Judicial Record

In our data, Landau authored 68 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Vanornum (546 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. 65 of these were attributed to Landau 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
2013	State v. Vanornum· Concurrence†	354 Or. 614	546
2011	State v. Cloutier	261 P.3d 1234	233
2011	State v. Walker	258 P.3d 1228	171
2015	Couey v. Atkins†	357 Or. 460	118
2014	State v. Unger· Concurrence†	356 Or. 59	113
2016	Horton v. Oregon Health & Science University· Concurrence†	359 Or. 168	82
2012	Halperin v. Pitts†	352 Or. 482	74
2018	State v. K.J.B. (In re K.J.B.)†	416 P.3d 291	72
2011	State v. Davis	256 P.3d 1075	62
2014	Oregon Occupational Safety & Health Division v. CBI Services, Inc.†	356 Or. 577	60
2017	State v. Hightower†	361 Or. 412	56
2015	State v. Lane†	357 Or. 619	55
2017	Brown v. SAIF Corp.†	361 Or. 241	51
2013	State v. Mills†	354 Or. 350	48
2014	State v. Washington†	355 Or. 612	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 76 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 is Jack L. Landau on?: Jack L. Landau is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).