Robert D. Durham

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name = Robert D. Durham


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office = 91st Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
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appointer = Barbara Roberts
predecessor = Edwin J. Peterson
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termstart2 = 1991
termend2 = 1994
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appointer2 = Barbara Roberts
predecessor2 = Jonathan Newman
successor2 = Rick Haselton
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Robert D. (Skip) Durham (born circa 1948) is a current Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously Durham was a judge for the Oregon Court of Appeals and a lawyer in private practice.

Education

Durham’s post-secondary education began at Whittier College located in Whittier, California.cite web
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accessdate = 2007-01-10 ] At Whittier he played first base on the baseball team and was a lineman on the football team.Leeson, Fred. High court appointment interrupts judge’s routine. "The Oregonian", January 5 1994.] He graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Justice Durham then attended the University of Santa Clara School of Law, graduating with his J.D. in 1972. After graduation he served as a law clerk to Oregon Supreme Court justice Dean F. Bryson from 1972 to 1974. Lastly, he earned an LL.M. in 1998 from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Legal career

Robert Durham was in private practice in Oregon from 1974-1991 working in Portland and Eugene.cite web
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accessdate = 2007-01-10 ] He served as chairperson of the Oregon State Bar's labor law section in 1984, and as chairperson of the Oregon Commission on Administrative Hearings from 1989-1990. He is a partner in Bennett & Durham in Portland, previously the firm was known as Kulongoski, Durham, Drummonds & Colombo.

Judicial career

Robert Durham’s career in the judiciary began when he was appointed to the Oregon Court of Appeals by the governor on November 19 1991.cite web
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work = Oregon Blue Book
publisher = Oregon Secretary of State
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accessdate = 2006-12-21 ] Subsequently he was elected to a full term in 1992, but resigned from the court before the end of his term upon his appointment to the state supreme court. Also in 1992, he served as a faculty at the National Judicial College. From 1992 to 1994 and again from 1996 through 2005 Durham was a member on the Oregon Council on Court Procedures.

Justice Durham was appointed by Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace the retiring Edwin J. Peterson.cite web
title = Oregon Supreme Court Justices
work = Oregon Blue Book
publisher = Oregon Secretary of State
url = http://www.bluebook.state.or.us/state/elections/elections27.htm
accessdate = 2006-12-21 ] His appointment on January 4 1994, made him the 91st justice since Oregon became a territory in 1848. Durham was then elected to a full six-year term in 1994 and re-elected in 2000 and 2006. [ [http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/may162006/results/js.pdf May 16, 2006, Primary Election Abstract of Votes.] May 2006 election. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved November 25 2007.] While on the court Durham served as a member of the Oregon Rules of Appellate Procedure Committee from 1994-2001, president of the Oregon Appellate Judges Association from 1996-1997, and twice as chairperson of the Oregon Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Rule 4 (1995-1996 & 2002-2005).

Other

Robert Durham is a member of the Board of Directors for Oregon Law Institute of Lewis & Clark Law School, the Multnomah County and Marion County Bar Associations, and a master at the Willamette Valley American Inns of Court, Master. He serves as an instructor of Judicial Ethics, Judicial Campaign Practices and Transition Issues. Durham also volunteers for the Classroom Law Project and as a mentor at Willamette University College of Law.

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