The U.S. District Court of Historical Society Newsletter President’s Message Graffiti in the Time of Protests By Julie Engbloom, USDCHS President “The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”

he quote, etched in granite on the front of permitting the slaves of the South to spread the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, comes into the West will not add one being to that Tfrom a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to unfortunate condition, that it will increase the Lafayette in December 1820. The correspondence happiness of those existing, and by spreading put forth Jefferson’s solution to slavery: diffusion. them over a larger surface, will dilute the evil Jefferson believed that the spread of slavery into the everywhere and facilitate the means of get- Louisiana Purchase territory would more quickly ting finally rid of it, an event more anxiously end the institution and result in emancipation. wished by those on whom it presses than by This idea led Jefferson to oppose the Tallmadge the noisy pretenders to exclusive humanity. Amendment, which sought to admit Missouri to It started out so well. To be fair, “the noisy pre- the Union as a free state. tenders to exclusive humanity,” is not a bad end- It is in this context Jefferson wrote: ing and resonates today. It’s the middle part where The boisterous sea of liberty indeed is never things get muddy. without a wave, and that from Missouri is That said, I doubt the full context of the quote now rolling toward us: but we shall ride was on the minds of those who took to the streets over it as we have over all others. It is not a after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis moral question, but one merely of power. Its police on May 25. I doubt it was on the minds of object is to raise a geographical principle for those who tagged the Hatfield Courthouse with the choice of a president, and the noise will graffiti. Continue on page 7 be kept up till that is effected. All know that

Graffiti on the facade of the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse. The Thomas Jefferson quote and response are found on this block of stone. Photo taken June 4, 2020.

www.usdchs.org Spring/Summer 2020 1 The Investiture of U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut By U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman

n December 17, 2019, the Judge Immergut received her fed- District of Oregon wel- eral judicial commission on August 5, Ocomed U.S. District Judge 2019, after the U.S. Senate confirmed Karin J. Immergut to the federal her nomination by voice vote on July bench at her formal investiture in the 31, 2019. Prior to joining the federal ceremonial courtroom of the Mark bench, Judge Immergut served as a O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse. Prior Multnomah County Circuit Judge for to the ceremony, a processional of a decade. She previously served as U.S. more than sixty judges from Oregon’s Attorney for the District of Oregon federal and state benches entered the from 2003 until her appointment to courtroom and sat together. the state bench in 2009. She has also Jacob Yerke, Judge Immergut’s served as an assistant U.S. attorney courtroom deputy, opened court, in both the District of Oregon and and then-Chief U.S. District Judge the Central District of California, a Michael W. Mosman welcomed the Multnomah County deputy district Judge Karin J. Immergut extends standing room only crowd. Former her thanks to those assembled attorney, and in private practice in Oregon Attorney General, Supreme for their support throughout her Washington, D.C. and Vermont. She Court Justice, and Governor Ted career. graduated from Amherst College and Kulongoski (who appointed Judge from Boalt Hall School of Law at the Immergut to the state bench in 2009) District of California, shared warm University of California, Berkeley. shared remarks. He was followed remarks about their colleague and Judge Immergut is the daughter of by Lou Savage, chair of the bipar- friend. The speakers concluded with immigrants (her father was an Aus- tisan Judicial Selection Committee Jim McDermott (Judge Immergut’s trian chemist and her mother a Swed- appointed by Senators husband) and their oldest daughter. ish mathematician). and and Representa- U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown Judge Immergut fills the seat of tive Greg Walden. Two close friends administered the oath of office, after Judge Brown, who transitioned to of Judge Immergut, the Honorable which Judge Immergut’s daughters senior status in 2017. The seat was Kelly Skye, Multnomah County Cir- performed the robing ceremony. Judge previously filled by the Honorable cuit Judge, and Debra Wong Yang, Immergut then thanked the many Malcolm Marsh (1987-1998), Edward former U.S. Attorney for the Central individuals who have supported her Leavy (1984-1987), Robert C. Belloni throughout her (1967-1984), William G. East (1955- legal career. The 1967), James A. Fee (1931-1954), and ceremony con- Robert S. Bean (1909-1931). Judge cluded with Port- Immergut joins Judges Ann Aiken, land musician Mosman, Marco Hernández, Michael Ashleigh Flynn Simon, and Michael McShane as the singing B o r n current active U.S. District Judges for to Run, one of the District of Oregon. Judge Immer- Judge Immergut is just the fourth gut’s family’s woman, of thirty judges, to serve as favorite Bruce a U.S. District Judge in the District Springsteen of Oregon since 1859 (joining Judges songs. Follow- Brown and Aiken, and the late Judge ing the court- Helen Frye). room ceremony, Scores of judges, including Judges Robert E. Jones, guests celebrated Malcolm Marsh, and Edward Leavy attended Judge Immergut’s December 2019 investiture. This trio Judge Immergut represents more than 100 years of service to the federal at a courthouse courts in Oregon. Photo by Judge Anna Brown reception.

2 U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society COPING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 On Liberty, During a Pandemic By U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman enter the courtroom and sit behind The hardest part of my job dur- On Liberty, During a Pandemic the bench in silence, without the ing this pandemic has been telling Iceremonial “all rise.” Instead of an individual, as we sit face-to-face, greeting the defendant, defense law- that I cannot sign his release order. yer, prosecutor, and a small crowd of No one could have predicted that a onlookers in the gallery, I sit alone video hearing could create a more inti- and turn on my computer. On the mate connection between judge and monitor, the split-screen captures defendant, compared to the antiseptic video feeds from all over the state: courtroom where the defendant usu- an individual in custody in federal ally sits far from the judge. In our new prison, a defense lawyer sitting at his virtual courtroom, I cannot escape kitchen table, the prosecutor sitting in what I see in the eyes in front of me. her home office, a court reporter, an But still I must tell many of them no. interpreter, and me, seated and robed I also see the eyes of those to whom at my courtroom bench, positioned in I am able to give liberty. Some have front of our federal court seal. Court sat in prison for months, and now a is in session. Court is in session with U.S virus has given them the chance to Thanks to our prescient Chief Judge Magistrate Judge Beckerman. prove that they deserved the chance. Marco Hernández, all live federal Photo courtesy of Jake Mcloud Their quick smiles and quiet “thank courthouse proceedings in the district yous” give me hope, but I also hold of Oregon were shut down on March in custody. To deny release would be my breath as I hope that my release 13, 2020. But the law requires that a “death sentence.” In mid-March, calculus was correct. newly arrested individuals be brought the motions suggested the possibility I keep my judicial “mask” on dur- before a judge without unnecessary of COVID-19 exposure in the Bureau ing these hearings, but I must remove delay, and so the show must go on. I of Prisons. By mid-April, the motions it for a moment to breathe. Deciding was the magistrate judge on duty for cited the hundreds of already infected liberty during a pandemic is a heavy all criminal matters in the Portland BOP inmates and staff. weight, made even heavier because courthouse for the month of March, With every new request for release, of the close connection I feel to the and covering for a colleague in early I struggled. In federal court, we human beings sitting in front of me. April, and was therefore tasked with imprison those charged with a crime I meet them where they are, in their virtualizing our daily criminal cal- only if they present a serious risk of prison block. I am close enough to endar. For the first few days of video danger to the community or risk of read their eyes, and I feel their human- court proceedings, it was business as flight. As a result, most individuals ity. They are scared, and I am scared usual (aside from the frequent “Can in federal custody pending trial are for them and for the safety of those you hear me?”). Then the floodgates not first-time or non-violent offend- around them. I have the power to save opened. ers. Most are charged with serious some, but I cannot save everyone, and Motions from pre-trial detainees crimes or have lengthy criminal his- that is the weight I bear. requesting release from prison in tories. On one hand, arguments for I take a walk after dinner every response to the pandemic began to wide-scale release resonated. On evening with my husband, a doctor trickle in. More motions followed, the other, I found myself signing an working at a busy hospital. We reflect reading less like legal filings and alarming number of new bank rob- on how these new experiments in vir- more like medical charts, detailing bery complaints, noting an uptick tual human connection will change each defendant’s underlying medical in local shots fired, and concerned our respective professions. Tonight, on conditions and comorbidities: asthma, about the increase in calls to domestic my final night of criminal duty (April diabetes, high blood pressure, obe- violence hotlines. On a case-by-case 10, 2020), we were startled on our sity, heart failure. The tone of the basis, I was charged with balancing walk as we heard what sounded like release requests changed as the virus the serious health risks of keeping an a gunshot, and then screaming, just spread, citing the court’s ethical and individual in custody with the serious a few blocks away. The calls became moral duty to release all individuals risk to the community if released. Continue on page 7

www.usdchs.org Spring/Summer 2020 3 COPING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Open for Business, Waiting for the Flood By Stephen Raher

entails temporary changes like sus- pending requirements for attorneys to obtain wet-ink signatures from their clients and not requiring hard copies of certain filings.” Keeping the court open to all liti- gants has consisted largely of explor- ing new ways to facilitate filings by pro se parties, without requiring a trip to the courthouse. As Hiss notes, “Bankruptcy is unique in that the fil- ing of a petition automatically creates a statutory injunction in favor of the debtor. Attorneys are already filing petitions electronically, but we had to brainstorm new ways to be acces- sible to unrepresented parties.” The information technology staff devel- Bankruptcy Judge Peter McKittrick conducting a hearing. oped new ways for pro se litigants to submit documents through the court’s hile the COVID-19 pan- closed. Despite the reduced staff in website, and packets of information demic took most people by the office, most work is going on as remain available for those people who Wsurprise, Oregon’s bank- normal — employees answer court do come to court, so that they can ruptcy court was actually well-pre- phones from home and ensure that navigate procedures without face- pared for the disruptions. “We have orders are promptly entered. None- to-face assistance from court staff. been working on our emergency pre- theless, some procedures need to Staff had already laid the necessary paredness plans for years,” says Clerk change. “We realized early on that groundwork to allow most parties of Court Charlene Hiss. “While these we would need to modify some of to pay their filing fees electronically. contingency plans are usually imple- our rules,” says Judge Brown. “This Finally, protecting staff and litigants mented for weather-related disrup- tions, they have worked just as well during the current health-related lockdown.” According to Chief Bankruptcy Judge Trish Brown, “The court focused on three goals when we revised our operations and proce- dures: complying with public health guidelines, remaining open for all people and businesses who need our services, and protecting our staff and customers.” Complying with stay-at-home orders and social distancing guide- lines has meant having nearly all staff work remotely. The court’s Portland office remains open but is staffed only by a handful of on-site employ- Stephen Raher working from his home office in a chair that was around ees; the Eugene office is temporarily during the 1918 pandemic.

4 U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society COPING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 In These Unprecedented Times? Pandemic and a Private Practitioner By Joseph Carlisle

’ve heard the phrase “in these more time with my family is a silver unprecedented times” used in lining (at least for me, you’d have to Ivirtually every type of communi- ask them how they feel about it). cation – from business calls to adver- Professionally, I tried an admin- tisements over the past months. Its use istrative case by telephone over two has grown tired and I’m not sure it is days, I had three telephone hear- entirely accurate. I write this missive ings, and I’ve stated to reschedule from a desk that belonged to my great depositions – by video of course. Bankruptcy Clerk of Court grandfather, who practiced law in New I’ve also filed various motions and Charlene Hiss keeps things moving York City in the late 1800s and early responses, as well as complaints and working from her home office. 1900s. About a month into my cur- answers, negotiated leases and busi- has meant conducting most hearings rent work-from-home stint, I realized ness divorces, and handled a variety by phone. Although the bankruptcy that I am working at the desk that my of other matters; all from the my court already relied heavily on phone forbears worked from during the 1918 home office. I have become more hearings for minor matters, all hear- Influenza Pandemic. This gives me skilled at video calls, such as control- ings and mediations during the past confidence that, one way or another, ling my background and learning to two months have been via phone. we will make it through our current mute myself. But I have found that In the early days of Oregon’s stay- health crisis as those before us did. everything seems to take longer, and at-home order, courtroom deputy This is not to say that my life has video calls are not only a poor sub- clerks were needed in the courtroom not changed dramatically, both per- stitute for in-person meetings, they to record proceedings, but staff mem- sonally and professionally. March are also exhausting. bers from different offices focused 13, 2020 was the last day I spent any Finally, the monotony of work- on methods for remote recording, appreciable time at my firm, Buckley ing from home and the stress from and now all courtroom deputies are Law. Since then, I’ve gone in four the health and financial uncertainty performing their duties seamlessly times, each time after hours, only to can be, at times, unbearable. It is in from home. pick up office supplies. Every time has those moments that I remind myself Modifying court operations has been eerie. My morning commute has that I am fortunate to have work and taken extra time and effort, but the been replaced by throwing the ball to be able to do it from home. I also project has been aided by a sharp for my three dogs and working in remind myself that those who came drop in bankruptcy filings in recent my quarantine garden. My evening before us found a way to survive (even months. “We all know that the eco- commute has been replaced by shoot- without the internet and Zoom), and nomic downturn will result in a flood ing hoops and throwing the ball for thus I will too. of filings soon—we just don’t know my dogs (my outside when the floodgates will open,” says jump shot has come a Judge Brown. In the meantime, the long way). I take (i.e., bankruptcy court is open for business. compel) my kids on long walks to see some- thing outside of the con- Check out our official fines of our yard during Twitter feed @ my former coffee and USDCHS for “new” historical lunch breaks. While school was still in ses- content. You can also find sion, I became a sixth- expanded articles with grade math tutor and additional photos at www. an eighth-grade paper USDCHS.org editor. However, the USDCHS board member Joseph Carlisle’s double opportunity to spend pandemic desk.

www.usdchs.org Spring/Summer 2020 5 COPING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 The Federal Defenders Office Continues Operations By Nell Brown he Office of the Federal Public to that work. But a great deal of staff Those of us teleworking have Defender kicked off telework- and resources have been deployed to invited our colleagues and sometimes Ting on March 12 with our first deal with new issues arising out of our clients virtually into our homes ever 4 pm all-office conference call the pandemic and the work-from- and makeshift workspaces, learning and the signing of telework agree- home transition. to Skype and Zoom over choruses of ments for our personnel files. Far from We have innovated and adapted barking dogs and with photobombing time off, the Federal Public Defender while social distancing. Rather than children in the background. We work staff has worked long hours during holding an office breakfast, we cel- around cats who insist on sitting on the pandemic, tackling new work such ebrated Administrative Assistants the paperwork we are most interested as advocating for vulnerable clients Day with Grubhub gift cards. We’ve in reading. We’ve seen the introverts in potential prison hot spots while collaborated, particularly with the happily hunker down and work in maintaining normalcy in workflow jails, the Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. their pajamas for twelve hours straight as much as possible and keeping our Marshal Service, and the Court to while extroverts long for more human staff safe. be able to conduct our work to allow interaction but make do with daily For two months, we have main- essential court functions to continue. Zoom calls. We continue to adapt to tained a stellar skeleton crew of just We’ve gone high tech, finally, with this new virtual normal. a few employees in the office to staff new iPhones (rather than having to the phones and work with the court use our personal mobiles) and office Here are two haikus from staff on daily business. All other employees iPads to facilitate remote communica- must telework, sternly banned from tion with clients in the U.S. Marshal From Chief Paralegal Kip Manley: the office to minimize the spread of Lockup. Social distancing has per- The screen’s flat; we long the virus. We have carried on with haps most directly impacted our staff For a day again when we business as usual for our habeas cor- investigators, who have been unable to can speak eye-to-eye. pus and appellate work, although the conduct in-person interviews for two Supreme Court’s April 2020 decision months, but in new, dark economic From Investigator Deborah King: in Ramos v. Louisiana disallowing times, they have been engaged in con- Now my client knows non-unanimous jury verdicts and the necting clients with needed resources all the things my closet holds inevitable related litigation has added to maintain stability in their lives. since we met on screen.

Various WFH (work from home) offices for members of the Federal Defenders Office. Photo from Nell Brown.

6 U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society COPING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 No Drop Off in Work in the U.S. Attorney’s Office ost members of the U.S. cases, which often requires travel to Attorney’s Office are tele- other parts of the state or out of state. Mworking from home unless Remote depositions pose their own court or office business requires a per- challenges. There are technological sonal presence in the office or a physi- limitations and connectivity issues, cal presence in court. Chief of the and one cannot appropriately deter- Civil Division Renata Gowie notes, mine the credibility of the deponent “We haven’t really seen a drop off in via remote means.” Civil Chief Gowie work,” and that in some respects, the reports that three new employees work has increased. started in the Civil Division during “Now that we are about three the pandemic, “not an ideal way to months into the pandemic, a few start a new job.” plaintiffs are eager to conduct in- Likewise, many aspects of the work person depositions in civil defensive of the Criminal Division has increased A May 2020 view of court over the course of the pandemic. proceedings during the COVID-19 Deputy Criminal Chief Scott Brad- pandemic. Photo Courtesy of Judge Beckerman. ford comments that the court and the parties, for the most part, have readily adapted to the new environ- On Liberty continued ment, “While not always ideal, with louder and clearer. “Thank You!” It the appropriate waivers by defen- was 7 p.m., and the voices rang from dants, most hearings are conducted homes across our neighborhood as remotely, using technology to appear.” families shared a raucous collective The resumption of jury trials remains thank you to our front-line work- Civil Division Chief Renata Gowie, an ongoing discussion for the court ers. I had assumed the worst, until I November 2019. Photo Owen Schmidt and the parties involved. moved closer.

learn, to listen, and to hold ourselves demands more from our institutions, Graffiticontinued accountable. And, yes, sometimes including the courts. Sometimes the there is rage. blind eye of justice needs to peek out But, maybe, in a way, it was. The And sometimes that rage comes at the roiling waters. problem with the American approach calling. It stares at us and demands The U.S. District Court of Oregon to history is that it is forgetful. attention. The graffiti painted on our Historical Society’s role is to look Too often those memory lapses are beloved courthouse is difficult to take ever backwards. We will work even purposeful. Omissions, from his- in. But we must. Because when you harder to tell our stories, fully and tory textbooks and lectures, from look closely, you will see that there, in unvarnished. To look backwards with the media we consume, from mov- the midst of the cacophony of words, open eyes and, where necessary, re-tell ies and popular culture. Omissions is a rejoinder to Thomas Jefferson: our stories with honesty and clarity. from quotations that appear to say Ride the Wave. “History is nothing if it is not one thing when the full rendition of Jefferson sought to avoid the wave about trying our level best to tell the words paints a different picture. of freedom by letting it roll onward, the truth about our past and our Jefferson’s wave of liberty was wide- under him, and cross his fingers. collective efforts to come to grips spread slavery. Today’s calling is more insistent, with it to make a better nation.” These historical and cultural omis- less patient. Four hundred years of –Daryl Michael Scott, sions are powerful in their ability to patience run dry. We can no longer Professor of History mold and hold the status quo. But, bury our past and pine for the status Howard University when they are found out and brought quo. The boisterous sea of liberty is The boisterous sea of liberty to light there is an opportunity to rolling toward us like a tsunami. It demands it.

www.usdchs.org Spring/Summer 2020 7 Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain: From Politics to Judgment By Ryan Bounds This article is based on an oral his- tory reveals, there are many surprises tory conducted by Michael O’Rourke in his life before the court. with Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain June 2008-April 2010 as well as the An Irish Heritage author’s conversations with Judge As one might surmise from his O’Scannlain. The oral history is thoroughly Gaelic name, Diarmuid on file with the Oregon Historical Fionntain O’Scannlain boasts a strong Society on behalf of the U.S. District and storied Irish heritage. His father, Court of Oregon Historical Society. Sean, was born in 1900 in County Its transcript for his oral history can Sligo in western Ireland. He grew up be found at https://digitalcollections. on the family farm speaking Gaelic ohs.org/oral-history-interview-with- and was very active from a young diarmuid-oscannlain-by-michael- age in the Irish quest for indepen- orourke-transcript dence. (Perhaps these paternal yearn- ings spurred the judge’s habit, many t was late September 2016. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decades later, of reciting the Declara- Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain. presidential election contest Painting by Wayne Chin tion of Independence for his family Ibetween and Hill- every Fourth of July.) As it happened, ary Clinton had kicked into high gear combined with a self-consciously Sean eventually became a cadre of the and seemed to be tightening (though originalist jurisprudence has earned Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Secretary Clinton would remain the him national prominence, according secret revolutionary group that pre- odds-on favorite to the end). Then to the Los Angeles Daily Journal, dated and eventually merged into the Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, a as “the U.S. Supreme Court’s best Irish Republican Army (IRA). 30-year veteran of the U.S. Court of penpal,” for so often convincing the In his oral history, Judge Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, did High Court that his colleagues on the O’Scannlain reports that, as a cadre, something quite extraordinary: He Ninth Circuit have missed the mark. his father had the task of “obtaining announced he would take senior status Judge O’Scannlain has taken his arms for the movement.” He found a without knowing who would win the message of judicial modesty far potential source in German weapons- White House and name his successor. beyond the pages of the Federal dealers operating out of Manchester All too often, federal circuit judges Reporter. He has spread it through after the Great War but negotiating vacate their seats when the presidency many of his dozens of articles and with them was—as the judge euphe- is held by the party that appointed hundreds of speeches. And he has mistically phrases it—a “high-risk them. It was thus particularly remark- modeled the principle for a small occupation.” Sean was arrested in able that Judge O’Scannlain—a for- army of law clerks he has mentored England, returned to Ireland, and mer chair of Oregon’s Republican along the way. One of those law jailed in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison. Party—elected to step down when he clerks, Judge Danielle Hunsaker, was It didn’t hold him. “He and a cell could readily expect that his succes- appointed to succeed him in Novem- mate were able to tunnel out, and sor would be tapped by a Democrat. ber 2019, giving Judge O’Scannlain went up to the north of Ireland to Judge O’Scannlain takes great pride, the rare, perhaps unprecedented, dis- Derry City—at that time it was called however, in confounding those who tinction among federal circuit judges Londonderry.” think federal judges are little more of having been immediately succeeded The fugitives were taken in by than “politicians in robes.” Indeed, by one of his own clerks. Padraig Hegarty, head of the IRA in he has crusaded against that miscon- Despite his success as a judge and Derry. They hid out in the attic of ception throughout his judicial career. the energy he has devoted to keeping the Hegarty home until the situation Judge O’Scannlain has emphasized politics out of jurisprudence, Judge “cooled down,” receiving meals from the non-political role of the federal O’Scannlain expressed little interest Mr. Hegarty’s young Gaelic-speaking judiciary many times in the more than in a judicial career as a young lawyer daughter, Moira Hegarty. Those days 800 published opinions and dissents and instead gravitated toward politics on the lam proved providential. Some he has authored. This consistent focus and policymaking. But, as his oral his- 15 years later—after fighting on the

8 U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society losing side of the Irish Civil War, The Irish Catholic influence for the New York Army National being imprisoned once again by the extended into Diarmuid’s early edu- Guard as a reservist. This draft-era new Irish government, and emigrating cation. He was tutored by a neighbor commitment was for eight years, but to America to work as a carpenter— until he was ready for the sixth grade, he ended up staying on for 23. His Sean returned to Derry to “renew his about two years earlier than his peers. service evolved from weekly drills in acquaintanceship” with Moira, who He then enrolled at an Irish Christian New York City to attending Officer was by then a schoolteacher. They Brothers school: All Hallows Grade Candidate School over two summers were married in Belfast in 1936, and School near Yankee Stadium. For high in upstate New York to intermittent then the couple emigrated to New school, he attended St. John’s Prep service as a lawyer with the Judge York City. It was there that Diarmuid in Brooklyn, where he was active in Advocate General (JAG) Corps. He was born in 1937. speech and debate. Despite his rela- retired in 1978 as a major in the JAG But he wasn’t born Diarmuid tive youth, he graduated at or near Corps. O’Scannlain. Sean O’Scannlain, the top of his high school class and Even more portentously, much to his own chagrin, had grown received a full scholarship to St. John’s O’Scannlain volunteered for Presi- up with the anglicized name John University, the venerable Catholic dent Dwight Eisenhower’s reelection Scanlon, and so his eldest son, in institution in Queens. campaign in 1956. His father was a turn, was born Diarmuid Scanlon. lifelong Democrat, but O’Scannlain It was not until the late 1930s that The Emergence of a always thought of himself as a Repub- John formally changed his own name Young Republican: College lican. (No one talks about the Irish to Sean and the surname of his young and Law School Democratic Army, after all.) This was American family to the Gaelic spell- In college, O’Scannlain began to the point of embarkation for three ing: O’Scannlain. The O’Scannlains exhibit the flair for organization and decades of activism and leadership spoke only Gaelic at home: “[T]hat leadership that would be among the in GOP politics. was the language I was brought up hallmarks of his career. He ran track, While O’Scannlain was serving, on until about the age of, what, four served on the yearbook staff, and was by his own telling, as “a cog” in the or five, I suppose, when I started to elected second-in-command of Skull Eisenhower campaign, he joined the mix with other children and had to and Circle, St. John’s honor society. New York Young Republicans and do something about communicating He also became deeply involved in became active in the Young Repub- with them.” He recalls his first of the National Federation of Catho- lican National Federation. He gradu- many appearances in the New York lic College Students and ultimately ated from St. John’s University in June Times came in the early 1940s after served as president of that sizeable 1957, and he spent much of the next he had decided to wander out of his organization. He recalls he was a two years helping his father with the backyard toward Queens Boulevard “Big Man on Campus.” (That was a family travel business and volunteer- and into the subway station. The thing in the 1950s.) ing with the Young Republicans in Times reported that the police had Perhaps most pertinent to his his spare time. He eventually won been flummoxed by the incompre- future career, however, was how election to the Executive Committee hensible tongue spoken by a young O’Scannlain spent his time off cam- of the Young Republican National boy found wandering there. pus. As a sophomore, he signed up Federation as the vice president for Sean and Moira O’Scannlain wel- international affairs. That role came comed six sons into the world, but with the responsibility of organiz- two were lost at childbirth. The boys’ ing—along with his counterpart for childhood in Queens was immersed the Young Democrats—the Second in Irish culture. Their father owned Atlantic Conference of Young Politi- and operated a travel agency special- cal Leaders in the summer of 1960. izing in tours of Ireland (though it was The conference was a heady project: interrupted by his service in World It convened 70 U.S. political leaders War II), and both of their parents (including several senators and mem- were very involved in New York’s Irish bers of Congress) and 70 leaders from Arts and Literary Society. Moira was other NATO countries. Running also a “very hardcore Irish Catholic,” the operation took him to the White Major Diarmuid O’Scannlain on and the family attended Sunday Mass the left. Photo Courtesy of Judge House and into meetings with Presi- without fail. O’Scannlain Continue on page 10

www.usdchs.org Spring/Summer 2020 9 United States. The prospect of such a Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain continued “nomadic existence” did not appeal to the young couple, so O’Scannlain dent Eisenhower and Vice President O’Scannlain did not meet his future looked for law firm jobs near Mau- Richard Nixon. He became involved father-in-law, Joe Nolan, until the ra’s family in the Pacific Northwest in “a lot of Republican things” dur- spring of 1963. Joe Nolan was gen- during a holiday vacation in winter ing this period. He also grew close eral counsel to the Weyerhaeuser 1964. He signed on with the firm then to William A. Rusher, the new pub- Corporation in Federal Way, Wash- known as Davis, Biggs, Strayer, Stoel lisher of the National Review, which ington—then, as now, one of the and Boley (now Stoel Rives LLP) in would emerge as America’s preemi- nation’s largest and most valuable Portland. The couple moved to the nent journal of conservative politics timber concerns. His wife, Jane, was city in February 1965 and have been and thought. a scion of the Fortune brewing fam- pillars of the community for more O’Scannlain matriculated at Har- ily of Chicago. But O’Scannlain was than five decades. vard Law School in the fall of 1960, undeterred by the distinctly indigo Much of their early civic involve- just weeks after the conference con- tint of the blood coursing through ment stemmed from raising eight cluded. He describes his admission the Nolan veins, and he and Maura over-achieving children. Those chil- to Harvard as “a great turning point were married that September. dren (and 19 grandchildren) are a in my life.” source of “great pride” for Judge That is an understatement. It was at Entering the Legal Profession and Mrs. O’Scannlain. All their chil- Harvard, as a 2L, that O’Scannlain As Maura was planning the nup- dren—Sean, Jane, Brendan, Kevin, attended a spring meeting of the Har- tials, O’Scannlain was jump-starting Megan, Chris, Annie, and Kate—were vard Young Republicans and met a his legal career. Thanks to some extra brought up to be active in the Cath- confident young woman by the name classes on taxation he had taken, olic Church and in extracurricular of Maura Nolan. Miss Nolan was not O’Scannlain had secured a position activities. They attended a dizzying a Harvard student. She was a Stan- in the Standard Oil Company of New array of local schools, including Jesuit ford alumna and chief of staff to Dean Jersey’s tax department during on- (on whose board Judge O’Scannlain Wesley Bevins, who oversaw the law campus recruiting. He started there sat), St. Mary’s, Lincoln, Ainsworth, school’s administrative functions. three days after graduation. Cathedral, Catlin Gabel, and Oregon She nevertheless ran for the post of He enjoyed the work and did well Episcopal School. The judge derives chapter secretary and—inevitably, to at the company. He soon learned, particular satisfaction from the fact all who know her—won the election. however, that advancement would that all eight of the children graduated For some reason lost to time and require a series of overseas postings from college in four years. space, this unlikely feat did not itself and numerous relocations within the Three of them are now lawyers. leave O’Scannlain hopelessly besot- ted with Miss Nolan. But providence intervened again at the end of that summer, when O’Scannlain returned early to campus to work as a research assistant for one of his professors. His arrival before the term began required him to consult with Dean Bevin’s office, and thus Miss Nolan, about access to the dormitories. Negotiat- ing over the accommodations brought about more than just a bigger room with a better view. The couple started seeing each other socially thereafter. (NB: This involved attending Cath- olic Mass and the occasional movie together. Nothing untoward) The couple were affianced on Maura Nolan and Diarmuid O’Scannlain are flanked by their delighted Christmas Day, 1962, though parents on their wedding day. Photo Courtesy of Judge O’Scannlain

10 U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society The eldest, Brendan, followed in his lican political scene of Oregon. He housed among client agencies). He father’s footsteps and joined Stoel made many of his early connections also spearheaded the creation of an Rives LLP, where he is now a part- in the Oregon GOP through a group honors program to attract talented ner. Kevin began his legal career as of Republican men who convened in young lawyers to the department. a litigator at the Dunn Carney firm downtown Portland every Friday to One of O’Scannlain’s daily duties in Portland but eventually moved to discuss the political developments of was attending the governor’s staff Washington, D.C. After serving in the the week. Among the regulars in the meetings for the attorney general. White House as associate counsel and group was a young and ambitious This allowed him to get to know Gov- special assistant to the president, he Bob Packwood, who was then in his ernor Tom McCall. The two “hit it now serves as senior counselor to the second term in the Oregon House of off pretty well,” O’Scannlain recalls, secretary of the interior. The youngest Representatives. and so the governor tapped him to of the lawyers, Kate, started her career In 1968, Packwood launched an serve as Oregon’s public utility com- in Washington, D.C., at Kirkland Ellis audacious campaign for the U.S. missioner when the post opened up LLP. She was a litigation partner at Senate, aiming to unseat the four- in 1971. At that time, there was only the firm before being nominated by term incumbent Wayne Morse. one commissioner, and so the job was President Donald J. Trump and con- O’Scannlain was “very much a prominent one, with responsibility firmed by the Senate in 2017 to be involved” in the campaign. Perhaps for overseeing the rates and services the solicitor of the Department of his most memorable contribution of several big industries: electricity, Labor. When asked about growing came during the final, televised debate natural gas, telephone, water, motor up in the O’Scannlain home, Kate between Packwood and Morse just a carriers, railroads, and aviation. reflects on the “lively discussions of week before the vote. He asked Sena- O’Scannlain “loved that job” and current events” her parents fostered tor Morse why his seniority was so the “intense study of economics… around the dinner table. She attributes important, given that Oregon ranked and very technical stuff”—bookkeep- her siblings’ shared love of debate, last among western states in federal ing, accounting, rate structures, and and their commitment to “criticizing investment. Packwood quipped in allocation of costs—that it required. ideas, but not people” to those feisty response that Oregon could not afford He now sees similarities between the family forums. so much seniority. He went on to scope of his responsibilities as com- As a young lawyer himself, win the election. (Decades later, at missioner and his jurisdiction as a O’Scannlain worked with almost all the hanging of Judge O’Scannlain’s Ninth Circuit judge, which often the main partners at Stoel Rives, but official portrait in the Pioneer Court- involves reviewing administrative most of his work experience was “on house, Senator Packwood gratefully records across a broad range of fields. the corporate versus litigation side.” recounted that exchange.) The tenure as public utility com- He helped with the tax treatment of Packwood was not the only mem- missioner, however, was considerably the employee profit-sharing plan at ber of the Republican men’s group shorter. After less than two years at Tektronix, and he worked on bank- to win office that year. Lee Johnson the PUC, O’Scannlain was tasked by ing and railroad matters. His first was elected Oregon’s attorney general Governor McCall with taking the lead taste of litigation was on a federal after a bitterly contested race. John- on one of the governor’s signature case with Manley Strayer, but he also son asked O’Scannlain to join him in policies: environmental conservation. represented several federal criminal the Justice Department as the deputy O’Scannlain took over as Oregon’s defendants on his own, pro bono, at attorney general in the summer of second director of the Department of Chief Judge Gus Solomon’s request. 1969. O’Scannlain accepted the offer, Environmental Quality (DEQ) in the He still credits Judge Solomon with leaving the life of a law firm associate spring of 1973. “It was a less comfort- giving him a foundational exposure for that of the state’s second-ranking able position,” O’Scannlain recalls. to criminal practice, which generates legal officer. He was frustrated at the fuzzy discre- a large share of Judge O’Scannlain’s The move launched a varied, five- tion involved in approving or rejecting caseload but was something he “never year stint in state government for industrial permits and setting allow- expected to be part of at all.” O’Scannlain. During his two years able pollution standards. The deci- as deputy attorney general, he helped sions could have enormous impacts Immersing Himself in dramatically reduce the number of on economic development as well as Oregon Politics and Policy assistant attorneys general and to the environment, but defensible stan- When not practicing law, centralize them within the Justice dards for making those decisions were O’Scannlain plunged into the Repub- Department (many of them had been Continue on page 12

www.usdchs.org Spring/Summer 2020 11 O’Scannlain prevailed, he recalls, on Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain continued the principal legal issue, but he did not get the contract reinstated. It was candidates around the country that a disappointment, he acknowledges: fall—and he resolved never again to “[N]o attorney likes to lose a case.” run for political office. In 1978, O’Scannlain left the Keane The loss of a “safe” Republican seat firm to start his own with two part- was tough, but so were O’Scannlain’s ners, Ron Ragen and Dick Roberts. financial circumstances in its immedi- He remained with that firm, Ragen, ate aftermath. He had drawn down Roberts & O’Scannlain, until he was his PERS account to defray the fam- appointed to the court. (Through a ily’s expenses during seven months series of mergers, the firm grew sub- of campaigning—a decision he came stantially, eventually forming part of to regret as PERS balances ballooned the international firm of Davis Wright through the ‘80s and ‘90s—and in Tremaine LLP.) November 1974 he was unemployed On board Air Force One, the 1974 and confronting limited prospects Ronald Reagan, the Reagan congressional candidate affixes a campaign pin to President Gerald with local law firms. Administration, and Ford. Photo courtesy of Judge After a few months, he took a Appointment to the Court O’Scannlain job with a friend’s law firm, Keane, O’Scannlain may have abandoned Harper & Pearlman, and stayed dreams of elective office in 1974, but hard to come by. O’Scannlain felt the for three years. It was there that he remained very active in politics. role was plagued by “imponderables.” O’Scannlain argued his only case He was an early booster of Governor As it happened, a more tantalizing before the Ninth Circuit: an appeal Ronald Reagan, supporting his pur- opportunity arose in 1974, when Con- seeking restoration of the Bonneville suit of the GOP nomination against gressman Wendell Wyatt of Oregon’s Power Administration’s power-sales former Vice President Nixon in 1968, first congressional district announced contract with an Alumax plant to and O’Scannlain was one of the first his retirement. O’Scannlain lived in be built near Warrenton. By chance, Oregonians to get involved in Rea- the district, and he felt he had devel- the argument put him before his for- gan’s 1980 presidential campaign. oped a sufficiently positive public mer moot court adviser at Harvard He eventually became co-chair of the profile in state government to have a and future colleague on the court, Oregon effort. Reagan carried Oregon path to the seat. The district was a then-Judge Anthony M. Kennedy. and won the White House. GOP stronghold, as well—no Dem- ocrat had ever represented it—so the partisan registration played to O’Scannlain’s advantage. He resigned from the DEQ in spring 1974 to cam- paign full time. O’Scannlain won the Republican primary, overcoming a state repre- sentative from Hillsboro and a televi- sion news personality. The Watergate scandal in Washington, D.C., how- ever, was making the general elec- tion match-up (against Democrat Les AuCoin) tougher than expected. The polling turned sharply against the GOP in the summer, following Presi- dent Nixon’s resignation and President Ford’s pardon of Nixon. In the end, O’Scannlain suffered a substantial Future President Ronald Reagan with the co-chair of the Oregon campaign defeat—a fate shared by Republican in 1980. Photo courtesy of Judge O’Scannlain

12 U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society O’Scannlain took a leave of absence wings, and he prevailed with the sup- in O’Scannlain’s winding journey to from his law practice to serve on the port of activists throughout the state. the bench occurred several months president-elect’s transition team. His He served as chair for the next three later. At about seven in the morning former experience in regulating pub- years and took a practical approach on August 8, 1986, O’Scannlain was lic utilities made him a natural fit for to “reducing the decibel level of inter- getting ready for work when Maura the Department of Energy, for which necine conversation.” This involved took a phone call and shouted up he helped oversee personnel and early focusing on the nuts-and-bolts of the stairs, “There’s a call for you.” policy making in the run-up to the organizing campaigns rather than O’Scannlain was in the shower, so inauguration. He did the same for disputes over social policy. He once he asked who it was, and Maura the National Credit Union Adminis- again played a leading role in Presi- responded, “I think it’s the press.” tration, but he characterizes much of dent Reagan’s campaign in Oregon in It was not. It was the press…ident. this period as “just rubbing shoulders 1984, an effort that kept the state in When Maura realized she had mis- with a lot of VIPs” who were waiting the GOP column that year. heard the White House operator, she for Executive Branch appointments. In the fall of 1985, O’Scannlain got alerted her husband, who rushed to O’Scannlain himself was considered a call from someone he had worked the phone rather wetter than one likes for both deputy energy secretary and with on the president’s campaigns as to be when addressing the Leader chair of the Federal Energy Regula- well as during the transition. It was an of the Free World. Despite all that, tory Commission, but he didn’t think emissary for U.S. Attorney General Ed O’Scannlain had a “nice conversa- it would be feasible to move his fam- Meese. The caller asked O’Scannlain tion” with President Reagan, who ily of ten to Washington on a govern- if he might be interested in serving on was “his most affable self.” ment salary. the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. By contemporary standards, the After President Reagan took O’Scannlain demurred, because he confirmation process unfolded with office in January 1981, O’Scannlain had never aspired to the bench and, remarkably little opposition or delay. returned to Portland and the practice in fact, had recommended someone The Senate received O’Scannlain’s of law, focusing on regulatory issues else for the vacancy. Meese’s emis- nomination three days after Presi- in the energy sector. He nevertheless sary pressed him, however, because dent Reagan’s phone call, and the held a variety of volunteer posts for the White House was unenthusias- Judiciary Committee scheduled the the Reagan Administration over the tic about O’Scannlain’s preferred confirmation hearing for September years. One of his assignments was to candidate. 20, 1986. The big event lasted “about chair the energy secretary’s advisory O’Scannlain took the matter up twenty-five minutes,” O’Scannlain committee on the disposal of nuclear with Maura. They both appreci- recalls, and was “[e]xtremely cordial.” waste, which took him to existing ated the tremendous honor of such Senator Paul Simon of Illinois led the repositories in Europe and potential an appointment, which promised hearing for the Democrats and said sites around the United States. After “a lot of potential for doing good,” “some very nice things.” Just six days the committee tendered its report (rec- yet they were concerned about the later, Oregon’s senior senator, Mark ommending Nevada’s Yucca Moun- significant pay cut. O’Scannlain Continue on page 14 tain, a source of ongoing controversy), raised this qualm with “the folks in O’Scannlain was asked to serve on Washington,” but they assured him the President’s Private Sector Survey a presidential commission would be on Cost Control (also known as the recommending a big pay raise for Grace Commission), which presented judges and other senior government its report to Congress in 1984. officials. Even as he served on the Grace Assuaged by that prediction Commission, O’Scannlain remained (which proved unduly optimistic), active in Republican politics in Ore- O’Scannlain eventually agreed to be gon. In 1983, Governor Vic Atiyeh considered. He flew to Washington urged him to run for chair of the state in spring 1986 for interviews with party with the aim of bridging the several lawyers at the Department of During a 2013 visit, Supreme widening divide between the GOP’s Justice. Those interviews “must have Court Justice Clarence Thomas religious conservatives and social lib- and Judge O’Scannlain converse gone well,” he says, because he soon about the restoration of Pioneer erals. O’Scannlain respected—and learned he would be nominated. Court House. Photo courtesy of had the respect of—people from both One of the more humorous episodes Kathy Dodds

www.usdchs.org Spring/Summer 2020 13 As a result, Judge O’Scannlain has Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain continued long urged Congress to ameliorate the growth of the court’s caseload by add- believes that fed- ing judgeships and carving out a new eral judges, who Twelfth Circuit. He has repeatedly can be removed testified in Congress in favor of such only through the legislation, but most of his colleagues arduous process oppose splitting up the court. The pro- of impeachment, posal has never gotten much traction should not imagine in the Senate, but Judge O’Scannlain they have a “roam- expects “it’s only a matter of time” ing assignment to before it must. go out and make The outsized caseload represents policy for the good only part of Judge O’Scannlain’s of the world.” In work. He has served on and chaired that respect, Judge numerous committees and boards O’Scannlain places relating to the judicial administra- tion, education, and the mission of Judge O’Scannlain shares a laugh with Norm Sepenuk himself jurispru- the courts over the years. He has also and Joyle Dahl at the 2011 USDCHS annual picnic. dentially in line Photo by Owen Schmidt. with former Chief made a point of welcoming scores of Justice William visiting law students and dignitaries O. Hatfield, called O’Scannlain from Rehnquist and Associate Justices to his chambers, relishing opportuni- the floor of the Senate to report he’d Felix Frankfurter (his “idol” in law ties to advance civic education and to been confirmed by acclamation. school), John Marshall Harlan, and showcase the Pioneer Courthouse, the Looking back on it, Judge Antonin Scalia. oldest operating federal courthouse in O’Scannlain reflects that he was one the West. (With his Portland-based of the last appellate judges confirmed Life on the Court colleagues, Judge O’Scannlain cham- “before the rancor started in ’87” Judge O’Scannlain says it felt like pioned and then oversaw the court- with the failed Supreme Court nomi- “going into the monastery” when house’s 2003-05 modernization and nation of Judge Robert Bork. Judge he joined the Ninth Circuit in fall seismic retrofitting). And he has been O’Scannlain “was very blessed,” in 1986, but he was impressed by the among the more active writers in the his estimation, because “it’s been par- collegial atmosphere. He remembers process of determining which cases tisan on both sides ever since.” being “literally embraced” by Chief the court should rehear en banc. As “Both parties play this game; Judge James Browning, and he was noted, his dissents from denials of they’re very, very strident,” Judge grateful that so many of his new col- rehearing in this context are among O’Scannlain says, and he attributes it leagues traveled from out of state to the better predictors of whether the to what he regards as the unfortunate attend his investiture (which his fel- Supreme Court itself will take up fact “that the courts are so impor- low Oregonian, Judge Otto Skopil, the case. tant [to] American social policy.” He organized). Looking back on his judicial record, would prefer it if “Congress w[ere] Although the court retains a Judge O’Scannlain can take substan- more jealous of…its own powers to friendly atmosphere, the work of the tial pride in the track record his opin- make those cosmic decisions,” but he Ninth Circuit has changed dramati- ions—or, more often, dissents—have surmises its members are “perfectly cally over the decades since. When posted before the Supreme Court. A happy” to let the courts make the Judge O’Scannlain started, active notable example arising out of Ore- tough calls. Ninth Circuit judges heard about 180 gon was the 2014 case of Wood v. As he has written and spoken about cases a year—now it’s more than 500. Moss. The unanimous Supreme Court so often, Judge O’Scannlain thinks The massive increase in workload closely tracked the reasoning of Judge that’s wrong: “The Constitution…is would not be possible without law O’Scannlain’s dissent from denial of a brilliant assignment of responsibili- clerks, he says, and even with their rehearing en banc in reversing the ties. But like anything, if one or the help (and that of the court’s host of Ninth Circuit’s rejection of qualified other branches gets too far out of its staff attorneys) the rate of growth is immunity for Secret Service agents own sphere, that is deleterious....” He not sustainable. protecting the president during a

14 U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society campaign swing through Jacksonville. More recently, the Court affirmed or A Hard Week in Spring 2020 vindicated Judge O’Scannlain’s votes in every case it took up in its 2017-18 James A. Redden (1929-2020) and 2018-19 terms. He says his suc- We note with great sadness cess in anticipating how the justices and profound respect the will rule on a case has helped him passing of Senior U.S. Dis- “maintain confidence” in his work. trict Judge James A. Redden. Judge O’Scannlain has also helped He passed away peacefully place an outsized number of his for- on March 31, 2020, age 91. mer law clerks in coveted Supreme According to the family, a Court clerkships. As of February public service will be held 2020, twenty-five of the judge’s after restrictions on gather- clerks have gone on to clerk for one ings are lifted. of the justices. Very few judges sitting We would like to direct outside of Washington, D.C., have From left: Judges James Redden and your attention to this remem- matched that record. He acknowl- Ancer Haggerty spend time with brance from U.S. Ninth Cir- edges that positive feedback from the former US Attorney Sid Lezak at the cuit Court of Appeals Chief Supreme Court and the justices who 2006 annual picnic. Judge Sidney R. Thomas have hired his clerks motivated him https://usdchs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Redden.tribute.4-1-20. to remain active on the Ninth Circuit pdf, and an article by Michele Friedman https://usdchs.org/wp-content/ long after he was eligible to retire. uploads/2017/08/oregon-benchmarks-spring-summer-2017-4c.pdf on pp. It has now been more three years 8-9. Friedman put it perfectly when she wrote, “Judge Redden’s contri- since Judge O’Scannlain took senior butions to Oregon’s political, legal, and environmental history cannot status, but he remains heavily engaged be overstated. That he did this work with such pure delight, and joy, in the work of the Ninth Circuit. After and humor is another of his gifts to all of us.” more than three decades as one of the leading voices on the court, he has become something of an institution Arlene Schnitzer (1929-2020) himself—one his countless admirers It is with heavy hearts that we pass hope shall endure for many years to along news that our former USDCHS come. Board member, 2012 Lifetime Service Award recipient, and philanthropist Arlene Schnitzer passed away April 4, 2020. She was the first person outside the legal profession to receive the Soci- ety’s Lifetime Service Award. Her son Jordan Schnitzer looks forward to a public celebration of her many contri- butions to our region when public gath- ering restrictions allow for it. We hope Arlene Schnitzer and Judge you will take the opportunity to find Owen Panner at 2012 annual meeting out more about a woman who was so important to our organization. You can find the article on p. 4 https:// usdchs.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2012-fall.pdf Judge O’Scannlain on the last day he presided at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse, October 7, 2016. Many well-wishers and former clerks gathered in the courtroom gallery to applaud him after Judge Jacqueline Nguyen noted the occasion. Photo by Ryan Bounds

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OFFICERS: President, Julie Engbloom; Vice President, Doug Pahl; Treasurer, Stephen Raher; Secretary, Joan Hilsenteger; Immediate past President, Kathryn Roberts

PLEASE NOTE: 2020 BOARD MEMBERS: Hon. Stacie Beckerman, Scott Bradford, Nell Brown; Joseph Carlisle; Crystal Chase; John Clarke; Michael Fuller; Renata Gowie; Klaus Hamm; Ethan Knight; John McGrory; Hon. Peter No Picnic for 2020 McKittrick; Steve Odell; Elisabeth Rennick; Kennon Scott; Jeanne Sinnott; Mohammed Workicho Because of continuing con- 2020 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS: Hon. Marco Hernández; Hon. Martha Walters; Liani Reeves; Kerry Tymchuk cerns about the COVID-19 HONORARY MEMBERS: The Belloni Family, pandemic, there will be no Ernest Bonyhadi, Richard B. Solomon picnic at the Leavy family hop The U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society thanks its lifetime members for their continued support farm this year. of the mission of the Society and honors those lifetime members who are no longer with us. LIFETIME MEMBERS: Mary Anne Anderson, Brent Since our first annual picnic Barton, Jeffery Batchelor, Hon. Stacie F. Beckerman, Owen Blank, Hon. Anna J. Brown, Hon. Trish M. in 1993 at the Bybee-Howell Brown, Nell Brown, Donald Cinnamond, Sarah Crooks, Julie Engbloom, Paul Fortino, Michael house on Sauvie Island, we have weathered cloudy Fuller, Gersham Goldstein, Edwin Harnden, Cynthia skies and sweltering heat with good company and good Harrison, Douglas Houser, Jenifer Johnston, Stephen Joncus, Hon. Robert Jones, James Knoll, Rob Laney, cheer. Jewel Lansing, Ron Lansing, Anthony Larson, Hon. Edward Leavy, James S. Leigh, Scott McCurdy, Nancy Moriarty, Jeffrey Mutnick, Elizabeth Newcomb, Daniel O’Leary, Katherine O’Neil, We look forward to continuing our picnic after we leap Douglas Pahl, Hon. Edwin Peterson, Peter Richter, Dian Rubanoff, William D. Rutherford, Sarah Ryan, over the 2020 ditch presented to us by the Covid-19 Thomas Sand, Jordan Schnitzer, Norman Sepenuk, pandemic. Arden Shenker, Hon. Michael Simon, Richard Solomon, Gayle Troutwine, Heather Van Meter, Norm Wiener, Timothy Williams, Kelly Zusman. If you think of it, raise a glass, a barbequed rib or IN MEMORIAM: Hon. Dennis Hubel, Hon. James A. Redden, Arlene Schnitzer some corn on the cob on August 2 in honor of picnics LIAISONS: Adair Law, Newsletter past and the enjoyment of friends an colleagues. Historical Research Associates, Inc., Oral History, Dana Vinchesi, USDC

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