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 1998

Susan P. Graber

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

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

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1990–1998 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Wellesley College
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Graber authored 147 published opinions for the court (1990–1998), plus 17 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Brown (504 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. 85 of these were attributed to Graber 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
1990	State v. Brown	800 P.2d 259	504
1991	State v. Stevens	806 P.2d 92	332
1997	Yogman v. Parrott	937 P.2d 1019	323
1995	McGanty v. Staudenraus	901 P.2d 841	298
1994	Don't Waste Oregon Committee v. Energy Facility Siting Council	881 P.2d 119	178
1997	State Ex Rel. Huddleston v. Sawyer†	932 P.2d 1145	171
1991	Trujillo v. Maass	822 P.2d 703	164
1995	State v. Guzek· Dissent†	906 P.2d 272	134
1991	State v. Carlson· Concurrence†	808 P.2d 1002	127
1992	State v. Williams	828 P.2d 1006	125
1992	State v. Plowman	838 P.2d 558	123
1994	State v. Nagel· Concurrence†	880 P.2d 451	119
1994	Ecumenical Ministries v. Oregon State Lottery Commission†	871 P.2d 106	102
1996	State v. Webb	927 P.2d 79	99
1995	Greist v. Phillips	906 P.2d 789	93

Showing the 15 most-cited of 171 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 Susan P. Graber on?: Susan P. Graber was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).