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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1952 / Served to 1970

William C. Perry

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

William C. Perry was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1985
Tenure: 1952–1970 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Perry authored 362 published opinions for the court (1953–1970), plus 42 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Lamb-Weston, Inc. v. Oregon Automobile Insurance (245 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. 327 of these were attributed to Perry 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
1959	Lamb-Weston, Inc. v. Oregon Automobile Insurance†	346 P.2d 643	245
1966	Berry v. Branner· Dissent†	421 P.2d 996	208
1966	State v. Elkins· Dissent†	422 P.2d 250	156
1970	Stewart v. Jefferson Plywood Company	469 P.2d 783	150
1962	Thornburg v. Port of Portland· Dissent†	376 P.2d 100	110
1969	State v. Gann· Concurrence†	463 P.2d 570	103
1970	Smith v. Cooper	475 P.2d 78	102
1961	MacEwan v. HOLM· Dissent†	359 P.2d 413	93
1970	Bahler v. Fletcher	474 P.2d 329	89
1959	Wiebe v. Seely	335 P.2d 379	88
1970	Waterway Terminals Co. v. P. S. Lord Mechanical Contractors	474 P.2d 309	83
1961	Ritter v. BEALS· Dissent†	358 P.2d 1080	80
1969	Shipman v. Gladden· Dissent†	453 P.2d 921	74
1960	Buck v. Mueller· Concurrence†	351 P.2d 61	63
1967	Dawson v. Payless for Drugs· Dissent†	433 P.2d 1019	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 417 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 William C. Perry on?: William C. Perry was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 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).