United States District Court for the District of Oregon

Organization

The District of Oregon has four divisional offices within the state: Portland, Eugene, Medford, and Pendleton. Among them, the Portland, Eugene, and Medford Divisions are all staffed. The Pendleton Division is not staffed and in-person filings must be made in the Portland Division. The Portland Division holds court at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse and handles cases from Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Hood River, Jefferson, Multnomah, Polk, Tillamook, Wasco, Washington, and Yamhill Counties. The Medford Division meets at the James A. Redden United States Courthouse and handles cases from Curry, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Lake Counties. The Pendleton Division holds session at John F. Kilkenny United States Post Office and Courthouse and covers cases from Baker, Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and Wheeler Counties.{{cite journal The Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse houses the Eugene Division that handles cases from Benton, Coos, Deschutes, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, and Marion Counties.

History

After Oregon became a state on February 14, 1859, the United States Congress created the District of Oregon encompassing the entire state on March 3, 1859. The bill creating the district authorized a single judge and also designated it as a judicial circuit. Deady held the first session of the court on September 12, 1859, in Salem, but was able to have the court relocated to Portland by the September session of 1860.

On March 3, 1863, Congress passed a law that removed the circuit court jurisdiction and transferred appeals court jurisdiction to the Tenth Circuit, and in 1866 transferred it again to the Ninth Circuit. On April 18, 1877, court clerk Ralph Wilcox committed suicide in his office at the court using a Deringer pistol.{{cite news |access-date=June 29, 2007

Current judges

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Former judges

Chief judges

Succession of seats

References

References

1. (September 3, 2024). "LR 3 - Commencement of Action". [[United States district court]].
2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041108095619/http://w3.gsa.gov/web/p/interaia_save.nsf/1fd3e688294c3a74852563d3004975f4/6d48b6c0c45dc100852565d90053a04e?OpenDocument GAS: Historic Federal Buildings]
3. [http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/courts_district_or.html U.S. District Court of Oregon: Legislative history]
4. President [[James Buchanan]] appointed [[Matthew Deady]] as judge, and the court was to hold annual sessions in April and September at the seat of government in [[Salem, Oregon
5. Beginning in 1933, the court was housed in the United States Courthouse (now [[Gus J. Solomon United States Courthouse]]) before moving to the new Hatfield Courthouse in 1997.[http://www.fjc.gov/history/courthouses.nsf/getcourthouse?OpenAgent&chid=5E71A6AE37D1B9AA8525718B00719D4B Historic Federal Courthouses: Portland, Oregon.] Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved on November 19, 2007.
6. Abrams, Kerry. [http://womenslegalhistory.stanford.edu/papers/LeonardM-Abrams.pdf Folk Hero, Hell Raiser, Mad Woman, Lady Lawyer: What is the Truth about Mary Leonard?] {{Webarchive. link. (May 30, 2008 Women's Legal History Biography Project. Stanford Law School. Retrieved on May 7, 2008.)