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Oregon Supreme Court Justice Jack Landau Announces Retirement

Oregon Supreme Court Justice Jack Landau will retire at the end of the year.
Oregon Judicial Department
Oregon Supreme Court Justice Jack Landau will retire at the end of the year.

Oregon Supreme Court Justice Jack Landau will step down at the end of this year. He announced his retirement in a letter to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown.

The 64-year-old was appointed to the Oregon Court of Appeals in 1992 where he served 18 years. In 2010, he was elected to a vacant seat on the Oregon Supreme Court and won a second term last year.

Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Balmer called Landau’s retirement “a loss for the Supreme Court and the people of Oregon."

Landau will be the third justice on Oregon’s highest court to step down this year. Judge Richard Baldwin retired in March, and Judge David Brewer left his seat in June.

Gov. Brown will select a new judge to fill Landau’s seat. 

Copyright 2017 Northwest News Network

Chris Lehman graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1997. He landed his first job less than a month later, producing arts stories for Red River Public Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana. Three years later he headed north to DeKalb, Illinois, where he worked as a reporter and announcer for NPR–affiliate WNIJ–FM. In 2006 he headed west to become the Salem Correspondent for the Northwest News Network.