Owen M. Panner
| Owen M. Panner | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
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Assumed office July 28, 1992 |
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| Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
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In office February 20, 1980 – July 28, 1992 |
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| Nominated by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Otto R. Skopil, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Ancer L. Haggerty |
| Personal details | |
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July 28, 1924 Chicago, Illinois |
| Spouse(s) | Agnes Nancy |
| Alma mater | University of Oklahoma College of Law |
Owen Murphy Panner (born July 28, 1924) is an American attorney and jurist from Oregon. A native of Illinois, he has served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon since 1980 and was chief judge of the court from 1984 to 1990. As of 2014 he is a senior judge on the court.
Panner was born in Chicago, Illinois to a geologist father. The family, which included two sisters, moved to Oklahoma, where Panner grew up in the town of Whizbang. His father worked in the oil fields as Owen grew up in the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In his youth he was an amateur golfer and won several titles. After high school, he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, but left after two years in 1943 to join the United States Army and the war effort, serving from 1943 to 1946.
In the Army he received an engineering education at West Virginia University before more schooling for the Transportation. Panner was then stationed in Los Angeles, California, where he worked on the docks coordinating shipments and where he met his first wife Agnes. They married and had their first child in 1946. The family was transferred to New York City, where Panner coordinated shipments to Europe after the end of World War II. After his discharge he was allowed to enter law school at the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated in 1949 with a Bachelor of Laws degree.
Panner heard from a classmate’s uncle, judge Claude C. McColloch, that Central Oregon was a scenic place to live, and the family moved there in 1949. In 1950 he entered private legal practice in Bend, Oregon, where he remained until 1980. From 1971 to 1974 he was on the Judicial Reform Commission of Oregon. While in Bend he worked for a variety of clients, including as general counsel for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Due to his work for the tribe, he was offered, but declined, the position of Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under President John F. Kennedy. A trial lawyer, he became a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and was named trial attorney of the year in 1973 for Oregon by the American Board of Trial Advocates. Panner was also vice president of the Oregon State Bar and a member of the board of governors of the organization from 1961 to 1963, as well as president of the Central Oregon chapter.
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