Rebecca Duncan

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Rebecca Duncan
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Nonpartisan

Oregon Supreme Court Position 2
Tenure

2017 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

7

Compensation

Base salary

$188,208

Elections and appointments
Last elected

May 21, 2024

Appointed

2017

Education

Bachelor's

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993

Law

University of Michigan Law School, 1996

Contact

Official website

Campaign website

Personal LinkedIn 

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Rebecca Duncan is a judge for Position 2 of the Oregon Supreme Court. She assumed office in 2017. Her current term ends on January 6, 2025.

Duncan won re-election for the Position 2 judge of the Oregon Supreme Court outright in the primary on May 21, 2024, after the general election was canceled.

Duncan was first appointed to the court by Gov. Kate Brown (D) in 2017.[1] She was subsequently elected to the court in a nonpartisan election in 2018. To read more about judicial selection in Oregon, click here.

Duncan was previously a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, Position 2. She was appointed to the court by Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) on January 7, 2010, to fill the seat vacated by Walt Edmonds.[2] She was elected to her appointed seat in 2010 and re-elected in 2016.

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] Duncan received a confidence score of Mild Democrat.[4] Click here to read more about this study.

Biography

Duncan received an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1993 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1996.[2][5] Prior to her service on the Oregon Supreme Court, she was a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, Position 2, from 2010 to 2017. Before her time as a judge, she worked as an assistant chief defender with the Appellate Division of the Office of Public Defense Services.

Duncan worked in the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser in Washington, D.C., supporting the Office of Law Enforcement and Intelligence, while in law school. Upon graduation, Duncan served as a trial attorney with the Metropolitan Public Defender in Washington and Multnomah counties.[2]

Elections

2024

See also: Oregon Supreme Court elections, 2024

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Oregon Supreme Court Position 2

Incumbent Rebecca Duncan won election outright in the primary for Oregon Supreme Court Position 2 on May 21, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Rebecca Duncan
Rebecca Duncan (Nonpartisan)
 
97.8
 
584,752
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.2
 
12,979

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 597,731
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Endorsements

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2018

See also: Oregon Supreme Court elections, 2018

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Oregon Supreme Court Position 2

Incumbent Rebecca Duncan won election outright in the primary for Oregon Supreme Court Position 2 on May 15, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Rebecca Duncan
Rebecca Duncan (Nonpartisan)
 
100.0
 
521,465

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.

Total votes: 521,465
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2016

Duncan won re-election on May 17, running unopposed.[6]

Oregon Court of Appeals, Position 2, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Rebecca Duncan Incumbent (unopposed) 98.87% 645,237
Write-in votes 1.13% 7,368
Total Votes (100% reporting) 652,605
Source: Oregon Secretary of State Official Results

2010

See also: Oregon judicial elections, 2010

In Oregon, appointed judges are required to run in the election following their appointment if they wish to remain in office. Accordingly, Duncan ran unopposed for election to the Oregon Court of Appeals and was elected on November 2, 2010, with 98.21 percent of the vote.[7]


Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Rebecca Duncan did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary

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Rebecca Duncan campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Oregon Supreme Court Position 2Won primary$24,998 $24,007
Grand total$24,998 $24,007
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

Analysis

Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)

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Rebecca
Duncan

Oregon

  • Partisan Confidence Score:
    Mild Democrat
  • Judicial Selection Method:
    Elected
  • Key Factors:
    • Appointed by a Democratic governor
    • State was a Democratic trifecta at time of appointment


Partisan Profile

Details:

Duncan was appointed by Gov. Kate Brown (D) to fill a vacancy. At the time of her appointment, the state of Oregon was a Democratic trifecta.



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.[8] Judges' terms begin on the first Monday in January following their election.[9]

Judges serve six-year terms. Judges seeking to serve more than one term must stand for re-election.[8]

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.[8]

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.[8] The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.



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Oregon Supreme Court Position 2

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Oregon Judicial Branch, "Biography - Justice Rebecca Duncan," accessed July 1, 2021
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Office of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, "Governor announces appointment to Oregon court of appeals," January 7, 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. ↑ Oregon State Bar, "Oregon State Bar Judicial Voters Guide 2010," accessed July 1, 2021
    6. ↑ Oregon Office of the Secretary of State, "Election History," accessed July 1, 2021
    7. ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Election History," accessed July 1, 2021
    8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Oregon," archived October 3, 2014
    9. ↑ Oregon State Legislature, "Oregon Constitution," accessed August 29, 2014
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