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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1980 / Served to 1982

Jacob Tanzer

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

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

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1980–1982 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Oregon
University of Oregon

Judicial Record

In our data, Tanzer authored 59 published opinions for the court (1980–1982), plus 14 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Springfield Education Ass'n v. Springfield School District No. 19 (365 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. 68 of these were attributed to Tanzer 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
1980	Springfield Education Ass'n v. Springfield School District No. 19†	621 P.2d 547	365
1981	Krummacher v. Gierloff	627 P.2d 458	232
1981	Sterling v. Cupp· Dissent†	625 P.2d 123	206
1981	State v. Quinn†	290 Or. 383	183
1982	Norwest v. Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital· Concurrence†	652 P.2d 318	170
1981	State v. Newton	636 P.2d 393	146
1981	Whipple v. Howser· Dissent†	632 P.2d 782	139
1981	State v. Shumway· Concurrence†	630 P.2d 796	108
1981	State v. Dillon†	637 P.2d 602	98
1981	City of Roseburg v. Roseburg City Firefighters, Local No. 1489	639 P.2d 90	94
1982	Matter of Compensation of Bracke†	646 P.2d 1330	87
1980	Stevenson v. State Ex Rel. Department of Transportation· Concurrence†	619 P.2d 247	87
1982	Matter of Marriage of Pierson	653 P.2d 1258	84
1981	In Re the Marriage of Haguewood†	638 P.2d 1135	84
1980	State v. Harris· Dissent†	609 P.2d 798	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 Jacob Tanzer on?: Jacob Tanzer was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).