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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 2007 / Active

Virginia L. Linder

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Virginia L. Linder is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Linder authored 53 published opinions for the court (2007–2016), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gaines (1,741 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. 36 of these were attributed to Linder 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
2009	State v. Gaines	206 P.3d 1042	1,741
2013	State v. Vanornum†	354 Or. 614	546
2008	Peeples v. Lampert	191 P.3d 637	389
2014	Comcast Corp. v. Department of Revenue†	356 Or. 282	168
2016	State v. Turnidge†	359 Or. 364	129
2009	State v. Parkins	211 P.3d 262	123
2013	State v. Backstrand†	354 Or. 392	103
2013	State v. Fair†	353 Or. 588	88
2008	State v. Davis	201 P.3d 185	82
2014	State v. Walker†	356 Or. 4	81
2010	State v. Vondehn· Concurrence†	236 P.3d 691	80
2011	Strawn v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Oregon†	258 P.3d 1199	78
2015	State v. Gonzalez-Valenzuela†	358 Or. 451	71
2015	Pearson v. Philip Morris, Inc.†	358 Or. 88	60
2007	Mastriano v. Board of Parole & Post-Prison Supervision	159 P.3d 1151	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 Virginia L. Linder on?: Virginia L. Linder is a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).