Justice Gillette retires from Oregon Supreme Court
January 3, 2011
Oregon: Justice Michael Gillette retired from the Oregon Supreme Court on January 3, 2011, after serving there for almost 25 years. Chief Justice Paul De Muniz called him, "the intellectual center of our court" while former Chief Justice Wallace Carson, who was Gillette's colleague for 21 years, said he was "one of the most productive, if not the most productive, member with whom I had an association with." Regarding his own legal career, Gillette stated, "A third of a century is long enough, and there are a lot of other people perfectly capable of doing it as well as I do it."
Prior to his judicial career, Gillette worked as a private practice lawyer, a prosecutor for the Multnomah County District Attorney and the solicitor general of the Oregon Department of Justice. He was then appointed to the Oregon Court of Appeals in 1977 and to the Supreme Court in 1986.[1]
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