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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1997 / Served to 2001

Ted Kulongoski

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Ted Kulongoski was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1997–2001 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kulongoski authored 28 published opinions for the court (1997–2001), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Stull v. Hoke (232 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. 19 of these were attributed to Kulongoski 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
1997	Stull v. Hoke	948 P.2d 722	232
2001	Bennett v. Farmers Insurance Co.†	26 P.3d 785	125
1998	Hernandez v. Barbo MacHinery Co.†	957 P.2d 147	92
2001	McCathern v. Toyota Motor Corp.†	23 P.3d 320	74
1999	Matter of Marriage of Massee†	970 P.2d 1203	66
2001	Parrott v. Carr Chevrolet, Inc.†	17 P.3d 473	65
1998	Stupek v. Wyle Laboratories Corp.†	963 P.2d 678	38
1998	Carlson v. Myers†	959 P.2d 31	38
2000	Thompson v. Coughlin†	997 P.2d 191	31
1997	Carrigan v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	949 P.2d 705	28
1999	Matter of Marriage of Sleeper†	982 P.2d 1126	26
1997	Redman Industries, Inc. v. Lang	943 P.2d 208	26
2000	Fulmer v. Timber Inn Restaurant & Lounge, Inc.	9 P.3d 710	25
2000	In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Brandt· Concurrence†	10 P.3d 906	23
1999	Oregonian Publishing Co. v. Portland School District No. 1J	987 P.2d 480	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 29 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 Ted Kulongoski on?: Ted Kulongoski was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

4 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).