Virginia Linder
| Virginia L. Linder | |
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| 99th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | |
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In office January 2, 2007 – January 4, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Wallace P. Carson, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Lynn Nakamoto |
| Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals | |
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In office September 1997 – January 2007 |
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| Appointed by | John Kitzhaber |
| Preceded by | William L. Richardson |
| Succeeded by | Timothy Sercombe |
| Solicitor General of Oregon | |
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In office 1986–1997 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1953 (age 63–64) Cañon City, Colorado |
| Spouse(s) | Colleen Sealock |
| Alma mater |
Southern Oregon University Willamette University College of Law |
Virginia Lynn Linder (born 1953) is an American judge from Oregon who served as the 99th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from January 2007 until January 2016. She served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1997 until her election to the state's Supreme Court in the 2006, an electoral campaign in which she defeated former Labor Commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Roberts.
Virginia Linder was born in Colorado, the daughter of two teachers, but grew up mostly in Carmichael, California. Linder earned her first degree in political science from Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, Oregon in 1975. She then spent two years working on the East Coast in order to save money for law school before returning to Oregon in 1977 to study law at Willamette University College of Law in Salem. She graduated from Willamette in 1980 with a Juris Doctor. While in school she worked at the Oregon Department of Justice during both her second and third years of law school, clerking in the Appellate Division of the Attorney General’s Office.
She began her career as an Assistant Attorney General in the Appellate Division of the Oregon Department of Justice, starting in 1980. Then in 1984 Linder was appointed as assistant solicitor general of Oregon. In 1986, at the age of 33, she was appointed Oregon Solicitor General, being the first woman to hold that position and serving in that office for longer than anyone else in state history. During her time as Solicitor General, she represented the state of Oregon in front of the United States Supreme Court, winning Oregon v. ACF in 1994.
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