Ellen Rosenblum | |
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17th Attorney General of Oregon | |
Assumed office June 29, 2012 |
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Governor |
John Kitzhaber Kate Brown |
Preceded by | John Kroger |
Personal details | |
Born |
Berkeley, California, U.S. |
January 6, 1951
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Richard Meeker |
Education |
Scripps College University of Oregon (BA, JD) |
Ellen F. Rosenblum (born January 6, 1951) is the Attorney General for the U.S. state of Oregon. She was sworn in on June 29, 2012, replacing John Kroger, who resigned to become President of Reed College. She is the first female Attorney General in Oregon's history.
Rosenblum was born in Berkeley, California, one of eight children of Jewish parents Victor and Louise Rosenblum. The family moved to Evanston, Illinois, where her father was a law professor at Northwestern University for 40 years,; he was also president of Reed College from 1968 to 1970. She graduated from Evanston Township High School and attended Scripps College before earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon in 1971, where she also earned a law degree in 1975.
In 1975, Rosenblum became an associate at the Eugene law firm of Hammons, Phillips and Jensen, and later became a partner in the firm. In 1980, she became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, specializing in financial crimes. In 1989, she was appointed by Governor Neil Goldschmidt as a judge to the Multnomah County District Court where she presided until 1993, when Governor Barbara Roberts appointed her to a judge on the Multnomah County Circuit Court. In 2005, Governor Ted Kulongoski appointed her to fill a vacancy on the Oregon Court of Appeals, and she was elected to a full six-year term in 2006, and retired as a judge in May, 2011.