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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1994 / Served to 2012

Robert D. Durham

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Robert D. Durham was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1994–2012 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Whittier College
Santa Clara University

Judicial Record

In our data, Durham authored 126 published opinions for the court (1994–2012), plus 27 dissents and 44 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Davis (666 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. 143 of these were attributed to Durham 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
2003	State v. Davis†	77 P.3d 1111	666
1997	Jones v. General Motors Corp.†	939 P.2d 608	448
2008	Peeples v. Lampert· Concurrence†	191 P.3d 637	389
2005	State v. Hall· Concurrence†	115 P.3d 908	336
2000	State v. Rogers†	4 P.3d 1261	302
2010	State v. Rodgers· Dissent†	227 P.3d 695	194
1997	State Ex Rel. Huddleston v. Sawyer· Concurrence†	932 P.2d 1145	171
2010	State v. Ashbaugh· Concurrence†	244 P.3d 360	161
2011	Farmers Ins. Co. of Oregon v. Mowry· Concurrence†	261 P.3d 1	138
1998	State v. Hall· Dissent†	966 P.2d 208	123
1998	Armatta v. Kitzhaber· Concurrence†	959 P.2d 49	119
1996	Conway v. Pacific University· Dissent†	924 P.2d 818	103
1996	State v. Stoneman· Dissent†	920 P.2d 535	84
1995	Barcik v. Kubiaczyk· Concurrence†	895 P.2d 765	82
2012	State v. Pitt†	352 Or. 566	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 197 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 Robert D. Durham on?: Robert D. Durham was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 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).