Lynn Nakamoto

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Lynn Nakamoto
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Nonpartisan

Prior offices
Oregon Supreme Court Position 6
Successor: Roger J. DeHoog

Education

Bachelor's

Wellesley College, 1982

Law

New York University School of Law, 1985

Contact

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Lynn Nakamoto was a judge for Position 6 of the Oregon Supreme Court. She assumed office in 2016. She left office on December 31, 2021.

Nakamoto resigned from the Oregon Supreme Court on December 31, 2021 in order to retire.[1]

Nakamoto was first appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by Governor Kate Brown (D) on December 7, 2015, for a term that began on January 1, 2016. She succeeded Associate Justice Virginia Linder, who retired at the end of the year. Nakamoto was subsequently elected to the court in a nonpartisan election in 2016. To read more about judicial selection in Oregon, click here.

Nakamoto was formerly a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, Position 8. She was appointed to that court by Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) in December 2010 to succeed Jack Landau and assumed office in January 2011.[2]

In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[3] Nakamoto received a confidence score of Strong Democrat.[4] Click here to read more about this study.

Biography

Nakamoto received an undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1982 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1985.[5]

Upon her appointment to the Oregon Supreme Court, Nakamoto became the first Asian Pacific American on the supreme court; when she was previously appointed to the Court of Appeals, she became the first Asian Pacific American from Oregon to serve on any state or federal appellate court.[6]

Prior to her service as a judge, she was a shareholder with Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf, P.C. from 1989 to 2010, and a staff attorney and acting executive director from 1987 to 1989.[5]

Elections

2016

Justice Nakamoto ran unopposed for a full term in 2016.[7]


Oregon Supreme Court, Position 6, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Lynn Nakamoto Incumbent (unopposed) 97.85% 1,140,090
Write-in votes 2.15% 25,033
Total Votes (100% reporting) 1,165,123
Source: Oregon Secretary of State Official Results

2012

See also: Oregon judicial elections, 2012

Nakamoto was elected to the Oregon Court of Appeals, Position 8, after running unopposed.[7]

Analysis

Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)

See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship and Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters

Last updated: June 15, 2020

In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.

The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[8]

The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:

  • Strong Democrat
  • Mild Democrat
  • Indeterminate[9]
  • Mild Republican
  • Strong Republican

This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.

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Lynn
Nakamoto

Oregon

  • Partisan Confidence Score:
    Strong Democrat
  • Judicial Selection Method:
    Elected
  • Key Factors:
    • Was a registered Democrat as of 2020
    • Donated less than $2,000 to Democratic candidates
    • Appointed by a Democratic governor


Partisan Profile

Details:

Nakamoto was appointed by Gov. Kate Brown (D) to fill a vacancy. She was a registered Democrat at the time of her appointment. She donated $1,320 to Democratic candidates. She was endorsed by the Oregon LGBTQ+, which frequently endorses Democratic candidates.



State supreme court judicial selection in Oregon

See also: Judicial selection in Oregon

The seven justices on the Oregon Supreme Court are selected through nonpartisan elections.[10] Judges' terms begin on the first Monday in January following their election.[11]

Judges serve six-year terms. Judges seeking to serve more than one term must stand for re-election.[10]

Qualifications

To serve on this court, a judge must be:

  • a U.S. citizen;
  • a state resident for at least three years;
  • a state bar member; and
  • under the age of 75.[10]

Chief justice

The chief justice is selected by peer vote and serves in that capacity for a six-year term.

Vacancies

See also: How vacancies are filled in state supreme courts

If a midterm vacancy occurs on the court, the governor appoints a replacement. The appointee serves until the next general election occurring 61 or more days after the vacancy, at which point he or she may run for election.[10] The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.



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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Gazette-Times, "Justice Lynn Nakamoto will retire from Oregon Supreme Court," accessed January 3, 2022
    2. ↑ Oregon Live, "Gov. Kulongoski appoints Portland attorney to Oregon Court of Appeals," December 24, 2010
    3. ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
    4. ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
    5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Oregon Judicial Department, "Biography - Justice Lynn Nakamoto," accessed July 1, 2021
    6. ↑ Portland Tribune, "Brown appoints first Asian American to Oregon Supreme Court," December 7, 2015
    7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 State of Oregon, Office of the Secretary of State, "Election History," accessed July 1, 2021
    8. ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
    9. ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
    10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Oregon," archived October 3, 2014
    11. ↑ Oregon State Legislature, "Oregon Constitution," accessed August 29, 2014


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