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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 1996

Richard Unis

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Richard Unis was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1990–1996 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Oregon
University of Oregon

Judicial Record

In our data, Unis authored 59 published opinions for the court (1990–1996), plus 50 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Holmes (257 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. 101 of these were attributed to Unis 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
1991	State v. Holmes†	813 P.2d 28	257
1995	State v. O'Key	899 P.2d 663	243
1993	Stevens v. Bispham· Concurrence†	851 P.2d 556	198
1994	Don't Waste Oregon Committee v. Energy Facility Siting Council· Dissent†	881 P.2d 119	178
1994	Gaston v. Parsons†	864 P.2d 1319	169
1992	Onita Pacific Corp. v. Trustees of Bronson· Dissent†	843 P.2d 890	144
1993	State v. Rodriguez· Concurrence†	854 P.2d 399	138
1995	State v. Guzek	906 P.2d 272	134
1994	State v. Cervantes†	873 P.2d 316	131
1994	Ledford v. Gutoski	877 P.2d 80	130
1991	State v. Carlson	808 P.2d 1002	127
1992	State v. Williams· Dissent†	828 P.2d 1006	125
1993	Buchler v. Oregon Corrections Div.· Concurrence†	853 P.2d 798	120
1994	State v. Nagel· Concurrence†	880 P.2d 451	119
1991	State v. Pinnell†	806 P.2d 110	116

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 Richard Unis on?: Richard Unis was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).