Kyle Krohn
Kyle Krohn ran for election for the Position 11 judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals. He lost in the primary on May 19, 2020.
Krohn completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Krohn was a 2018 nonpartisan candidate for Position 10 judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals. He lost the primary on May 15, 2018.
Biography
Kyle Krohn was born in Portland, Oregon, and lives in Salem, Oregon. He earned a bachelor's degree from Whitman College in 2006 and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2010. Krohn’s career experience includes working as an attorney specializing in public defense.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Oregon intermediate appellate court elections, 2020
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Oregon Court of Appeals Position 11
Incumbent Joel S. DeVore won election outright against Kyle Krohn in the primary for Oregon Court of Appeals Position 11 on May 19, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Joel S. DeVore (Nonpartisan) | 57.7 | 572,427 |
 | Kyle Krohn (Nonpartisan)  | 41.9 | 415,922 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 3,363 | ||
| Total votes: 991,712 | |||
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2018
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Oregon Court of Appeals Position 10
Incumbent Rex Armstrong won election outright against Kyle Krohn in the primary for Oregon Court of Appeals Position 10 on May 15, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rex Armstrong (Nonpartisan) | 62.8 | 405,899 |
| Kyle Krohn (Nonpartisan) | 37.2 | 240,896 | |
| Total votes: 646,795 | |||
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Selection method
- See also: Nonpartisan election of judges
Judges of the Oregon Court of Appeals are chosen in nonpartisan elections to serve six-year terms, after which they must run for re-election if they wish to continue serving.[2] In the event of a midterm vacancy, the governor appoints a replacement. The appointee serves until the next general election occurring 60 or more days after the appointment, at which point he or she may run for election.[2]
Qualifications
To serve on the court of appeals, a judge must be:
- a qualified elector of his or her county of residence;
- a state bar member; and
- under the age of 75.[2]
Selection of the chief judge
The chief judge of the court of appeals is appointed by the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court to serve a two-year term.[2]
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kyle Krohn completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Krohn's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Transparency. I believe that judges should explain all of their decisions. Right now the Court of Appeals gives no explanation for most of its rulings. I will work to change that.
- Efficiency. I believe that courts should give people prompt rulings. Right now the typical appeal takes two years from start to finish. Many appeals take even longer. I will work to decide cases more efficiently and effectively.
- Impartiality. I believe that the public must have absolute confidence that judges are neutral. I will be a judge elected by the people. I will not owe my position to the governor and will not accept campaign contributions from anyone. I will explain all of my decisions, and you can be confident that I will always give my honest opinion of the cases before me.
Right now, the Court of Appeals "affirms without opinion" (AWOP) in most cases. That means the judges give no explanation whatsoever for their ruling. They do it in easy cases and hard cases. Simple cases and complicated cases. Cases where they think the lower court was right and cases where they think the lower court was wrong. Cases where the judges themselves disagree. Sometimes they even do it by mistake.
I believe that the AWOP practice is unjust and unneeded. Many other appellate courts give at least one or two sentences to explain their rulings. Oregon's Court of Appeals can and should do at least that much. That would help the parties, other courts, and the public know why the court did what it did - and keep the court accountable.
Humility is probably the more difficult quality, because someone is unlikely to seek public office unless they believe that they are extremely well qualified for it. But humility is essential, because elected officials wield tremendous power over people's lives. If you aren't prepared to acknowledge that you might sometimes get it wrong - and be willing to admit and correct your own mistakes when others point them out to you - then you risk abusing or misusing your power.
For example, Court of Appeals decisions can dictate when police officers may pull someone over or when DHS can take custody of someone's child. The court hears everything from land use disputes to worker's compensation claims to divorces. Even if you never hear about them in the news, those decisions can effect all of us.
I am not running because I want to unseat a particular incumbent. I don't hold anything personally against any of the current judges. To be honest, I don't even have a strong desire to be a judge. If the AWOP practice did not exist, I would probably not be running at all.
Criminal cases make up the bulk of what the Court of Appeals hears, so I think it's very important to have judges with some experience in criminal law. That includes both prosecution and defense. Right now the court does not have a lot of judges with that kind of experience, so I believe that I would contribute valuable criminal law expertise and a public defender's perspective to the court's deliberations.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
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Federal courts:
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Oregon • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Oregon
State courts:
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State resources:
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