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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 2013 / Active

Richard C. Baldwin

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Richard C. Baldwin is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baldwin authored 36 published opinions for the court (2013–2020), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Unger (113 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. 41 of these were attributed to Baldwin 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
2014	State v. Unger· Dissent†	356 Or. 59	113
2015	State v. Clemente-Perez†	357 Or. 745	96
2015	Pereida-Alba v. Coursey· Dissent†	356 Or. 654	82
2014	State v. Holdorf†	355 Or. 812	75
2016	Neumann v. Liles†	358 Or. 706	64
2014	State v. McAnulty†	356 Or. 432	53
2015	State v. Dickerson†	356 Or. 822	49
2016	State v. Chandler†	360 Or. 323	44
2014	State v. Musser· Concurrence†	356 Or. 148	33
2013	State v. Christian†	354 Or. 22	28
2016	Northwest Natural Gas Co. v. City of Gresham†	359 Or. 309	25
2014	Rice v. Rabb†	354 Or. 721	22
2013	Robinson v. Harley-Davidson Motor Co.†	354 Or. 572	22
2016	FountainCourt Homeowners' Ass'n v. FountainCourt Development, LLC†	360 Or. 341	20
2015	State v. Lykins†	357 Or. 145	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 42 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 Richard C. Baldwin on?: Richard C. Baldwin is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).