James A. Redden
| James A. Redden | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
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Assumed office March 13, 1995 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
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In office February 20, 1980 – March 13, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Seat Established |
| Succeeded by | Ann Aiken |
| 10th Oregon Attorney General | |
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In office January 3, 1977 – March 24, 1980 |
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| Preceded by | Lee Johnson (R) |
| Succeeded by | James M. Brown (D) |
| Oregon State Treasurer | |
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In office January 1, 1973 – January 3, 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Robert W. Straub |
| Succeeded by | Clay Myers |
| Personal details | |
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March 13, 1929 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Johnson Redden |
| Children | JIm Redden, journalist Bill Redden, attorney |
| Residence | Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Boston College Law School |
| Occupation | Attorney |
James Anthony "Jim" Redden Jr. (born March 13, 1929) is a judge and politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. Since 1980, he has served as a District Court Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; he took Senior Status in 1995. Before appointment to the bench, he was a trial attorney, and a career Democratic politician, serving as a legislator and in two of the state's constitutional offices, Treasurer and Attorney General. As a politician, he was a key figure in some of Oregon's most groundbreaking legislative initiatives, including brokering the deal which brought passage of the state's 1967 public beach access law. Many of the cases he has heard in his quarter of a century on the federal bench gained national attention, often sparking controversy, including his dismissal of the 1975 guns and ammunition charges against American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks, and his more recent 2005 and 2006 decisions halting the Bush administration's plans to reduce spillway flows on the Columbia and Snake rivers, flows which environmentalists and indigenous tribes have criticized as devastating to the salmon runs. The federal courthouse in Medford, Oregon, where he practiced law for 17 years, was renamed by an Act of Congress in his honor. He and his wife, Joan, make their home in Beaverton, Oregon and have two adult sons: Jim, a reporter for the Portland Tribune, and Bill, a public defender.
During the days of the Great Depression, Jim Redden was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the third child of James A. Redden, Sr., a dentist, and his wife, Alma. He spent his early childhood in their home on Bronson Terrace at the eastern edge of Forest Park, where for a time his father also maintained his dental office
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