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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1958

Randall B. Kester

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Randall B. Kester was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2012
Tenure: 1957–1958 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Willamette University
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Kester authored 23 published opinions for the court (1957–1958). Most cited: State v. Nunn (47 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. 18 of these were attributed to Kester 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
1958	State v. Nunn†	321 P.2d 356	47
1957	OMLIE ET UX v. Hunt†	316 P.2d 528	44
1957	Moore v. Schermerhorn	308 P.2d 180	42
1958	Marr v. Putnam†	321 P.2d 1061	33
1957	Anderson v. Britton	318 P.2d 291	28
1958	Hays v. Herman†	322 P.2d 119	27
1957	Case v. Chambers†	210 Or. 680	22
1957	Scarth v. Scarth†	315 P.2d 141	21
1957	Cole v. FOGEL†	310 P.2d 315	18
1958	McCarty v. HEDGES	321 P.2d 285	16
1958	Genova v. Johnson†	321 P.2d 1050	16
1957	Hewitt v. THOMAS†	310 P.2d 313	15
1957	Johnson v. School District No. 12†	312 P.2d 591	12
1957	Dorey v. Myers†	317 P.2d 515	10
1958	Klever v. ELLIOTT†	320 P.2d 263	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 23 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 Randall B. Kester on?: Randall B. Kester was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year 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).