Jacqueline S. Kamins is running for Oregon Court of Appeals Judge, Position 9, in the Nov. 3, 2026, general election. The race is nonpartisan.
Kamins has held the Position 9 seat since Jan. 17, 2020, when Gov. Kate Brown appointed her to replace Judge Erika L. Hadlock, according to Ballotpedia. She is certified for the November ballot, according to BallotReady election data.
Candidate information
Office sought: Oregon Court of Appeals Judge, Position 9
Party: Nonpartisan
Education: Bachelor's degree from Columbia University (1997); juris doctor from the University of Virginia (2002), according to BallotReady
Residence: Not provided
Experience and public service
Kamins began her legal career as a judicial clerk for Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2002 to 2003. She described her career history in her Oregon Voter's Pamphlet statement.
She then worked as an associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP from 2004 to 2006, according to her pamphlet statement.
Kamins served as an assistant attorney general at the Oregon Department of Justice from 2006 to 2015, according to BallotReady. During that stretch, she also began teaching as an adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark Law School, a role she held from 2009 to 2019, according to BallotReady.
She worked as an assistant county attorney at Multnomah County from 2015 to 2019, according to BallotReady. She then joined Markowitz Herbold PC as an attorney from 2019 to 2020, before her appointment to the bench, according to BallotReady.
Kamins said in her voter's pamphlet statement that she served as president of the Federal Bar Association's Oregon Chapter in 2020.
Community involvement
The following volunteer roles are listed in Kamins' voter's pamphlet entry:
- Volunteer facilitator at the Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families (2013–present)
- Shelter volunteer at Path Home (2018–present)
- Volunteer drama club instructor at ACCESS Academy (2022–present)
Responses are based on public data and answers to a Surround Sound Media questionnaire if they were provided.
