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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1947 / Served to 1948

Walter C. Winslow

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Walter C. Winslow was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1962
Tenure: 1947–1948 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Willamette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Winslow authored 16 published opinions for the court (1946–1947), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Bowser v. State Industrial Accident Commission (47 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1947	Bowser v. State Industrial Accident Commission	185 P.2d 891	47
1947	Smith v. Williams	178 P.2d 710	26
1947	Hughes v. Hughes	178 P.2d 170	17
1947	Biersdorf v. Putnam· Dissent	182 P.2d 992	13
1947	Summerville v. Gillespie	179 P.2d 719	12
1947	Powell v. Powell	184 P.2d 373	9
1947	Engelgau v. Walter	182 P.2d 987	8
1946	Barkley Et Ux. v. Gibbs	178 P.2d 918	8
1947	Lewis Et Ux. v. Shook Et Ux.	188 P.2d 148	7
1947	In Re Richter's Estate· Separate	182 P.2d 378	7
1947	Eldred v. Burns	188 P.2d 154	6
1947	Callander and Stone v. Brown· Dissent	178 P.2d 922	6
1947	Van Doozer v. Van Doozer	181 P.2d 126	4
1947	Pate v. Parker	177 P.2d 250	4
1947	Richardson v. Richardson	186 P.2d 398	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 19 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 Walter C. Winslow on?: Walter C. Winslow was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

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1 year 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).