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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1982 / Served to 2007

Wallace P. Carson Jr.

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Wallace P. Carson Jr. was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1982–2007 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Carson authored 232 published opinions for the court (1982–2007), plus 8 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Owens (434 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. 122 of these were attributed to Carson 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
1986	State v. Owens	729 P.2d 524	434
2005	State v. Hall†	115 P.3d 908	336
2006	State v. Gornick	130 P.3d 780	282
1983	State v. Davis	666 P.2d 802	279
1990	State v. Smith†	791 P.2d 836	205
1985	State v. Miller†	709 P.2d 225	162
1985	State v. Moyle	705 P.2d 740	152
1990	Mattiza v. Foster†	803 P.2d 723	147
1999	State v. Titus†	982 P.2d 1133	143
1992	State v. Langley	839 P.2d 692	134
1988	State v. Bridewell	759 P.2d 1054	131
2004	In Re Marriage of Kunze†	92 P.3d 100	125
1998	State v. Toevs†	964 P.2d 1007	125
1990	Garcia v. Boise Cascade Corp.†	787 P.2d 884	125
1998	Armatta v. Kitzhaber†	959 P.2d 49	119

Showing the 15 most-cited of 247 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 Wallace P. Carson Jr. on?: Wallace P. Carson Jr. was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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25 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).