Robert E. Jones (judge)

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For other people with a similar name, see Robert Jones (disambiguation).

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Early life

Jones was born in 1927 in Portland, Oregon.[1] After high school Jones joined the United States Naval Reserve and attended the University of Hawaii where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1949.[1] He then enrolled at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland where he graduated in 1953 with an LL.B..[1] While in the Naval Reserve he served in the Judge Advocate General Corps from 1949 to 1987.[1]

Legal career

After law school Robert Jones entered private legal practice in Portland where he remained until 1963.[1] In 1963 he entered politics when he served in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican representing Portland.[2] However he resigned before the special session held later that year.[3] Jones resigned in order to become a circuit judge in Multnomah County, Oregon, where he remained until 1982.[1]

On December 16, 1982, Robert E. Jones was appointed by Oregon Governor Victor G. Atiyeh to the Oregon Supreme Court.[4][5] He replaced Jacob Tanzer who had resigned.[5] Jones served on Oregon’s highest court until April 30, 1990, when he resigned.[5] Jones left that court in order to become a federal judge for U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon when he was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to replace James M. Burns.[1] After nomination on February 20, 1990, he was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 27 and then received his federal commission on April 30, 1990.[1] Jones then became a federal senior judge on May 1, 2000[1] and is also a senior judge in Oregon.[6]

As a federal judge he upheld Oregon’s Assisted Suicide law against a federal challenge in April 2002.[7] U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft had challenged the law based on federal laws concerning controlled substances.[7] In 2003[8] to 2004 he was the presiding judge of the case involving Mike Hawash of the Portland Seven in which Hawash received a seven-year sentence for conspiring to fight in Afghanistan for the Taliban against United States forces.[9] Then in 2005 he ruled against the Bush administration in their efforts to reduce protection of gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act.[10]

Judge Jones is a former president of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, an adjunct member of the Lewis & Clark Law School faculty, part of the National Judicial College, and a faculty member of the American Academy of Judicial Education.[11]

See also

References

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Preceded by Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon
1990–2000		 Succeeded by
Michael W. Mosman
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Oregon Legislature: 1963 Regular Session. Oregon State Archives. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
  3. ↑ Oregon Legislature: 1963 Special Session. Oregon State Archives. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
  4. ↑ Oregon Blue Book: Oregon Governors. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Oregon Blue Book: Supreme Court Justices of Oregon. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
  6. ↑ Oregon Blue Book: Senior Judges. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Federal judge upholds Oregon assisted-suicide law. CNN.com. April 17, 2002. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.
  8. ↑ Oregon resident Maher Hawash charged in ‘Portland Six’ conspiracy. U.S. Dept. of Justice. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.
  9. ↑ Ben Jacklet and Janine Robben. Hawash regrets ‘worst decision’. Portland Tribune, April 10, 2004. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.
  10. ↑ Mulford, Tanya. Wolves Win: Federal Judge Upholds Endangered Species Act Protections. The Humane Society of the United States. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.
  11. ↑ Federal Civil Trials and Evidence. The Rutter Group. Retrieved on February 1, 2008.
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