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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1965 / Served to 1980

Ralph M. Holman

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Ralph M. Holman was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–2013
Tenure: 1965–1980 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Lewis & Clark College

Judicial Record

In our data, Holman authored 507 published opinions for the court (1965–1980), plus 23 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: Ball v. Gladden (849 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. 461 of these were attributed to Holman 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
1968	Ball v. Gladden†	443 P.2d 621	849
1978	Seeborg v. General Motors Corporation	588 P.2d 1100	268
1977	State v. Valdez	561 P.2d 1006	229
1977	Brown v. Multnomah County District Court· Dissent†	570 P.2d 52	214
1966	Berry v. Branner†	421 P.2d 996	208
1974	State v. Krummacher	523 P.2d 1009	170
1966	State v. Elkins†	422 P.2d 250	156
1974	Phillips v. Kimwood MacHine Company	525 P.2d 1033	154
1969	State v. Hodges· Concurrence†	457 P.2d 491	139
1976	United States National Bank of Oregon v. Davies†	548 P.2d 966	128
1971	Josephs v. Burns†	491 P.2d 203	121
1978	Derenco, Inc. v. Benj. Franklin Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n†	577 P.2d 477	105
1972	Joseph v. Lowery†	495 P.2d 273	104
1967	Noe v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals†	435 P.2d 306	101
1974	Johnson v. Star MacHinery Company	530 P.2d 53	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 569 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 Ralph M. Holman on?: Ralph M. Holman was 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).