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Rives, George D. (George Douglas), 1915-2014

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  • 1915-2014

George Douglas Rives was born in Kentucky in 1915. He graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1935 and earned a law degree from Yale in 1938. He then practiced law in Washington, D.C., at Turney, Rives, and Turney, specializing in transportation law. In 1943, he left the firm to enlist in the U.S. Navy, and he served in the Naval Air Transport Service during World War II. While stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii, he met Claire Thomas, and they married in 1945; they later had two children and adopted one child. After his discharge in 1945, he practiced law at the Brobeck Firm in San Francisco, California. In 1962, the family relocated to Portland, Oregon, for Rives to join the firm that would later become Stoel Rives. At the firm, his primary client was Pacific Power and Light. He retired in 1984. During his retirement, he did pro bono legal work for the Oregon Legal Services Corporation for about a decade. He died in 2014.

O'Neill, Katherine E. S. (Katherine Elizabeth Schnabel), 1899-1995

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  • 1899-1995

Katherine Elizabeth Schnabel O'Neill (1899-1995) was born in Portland, Oregon. She attended Failing School, Ainsworth School and Catlin School in Portland Oregon, and Miss Harker's Boarding School for Girls in Palo Alto, California. She continued to live in California for many years before returning to Portland, Oregon in 1950. She was the daughter of prominent Portland lawyer Charles J. Schnabel, who was shot and killed in the Multnomah County Courthouse in 1921.

Zusman, Kelly A., 1965-

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  • 1965-

Kelly A. Zusman (1965- ) graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1989. She clerked for US District Judge Malcolm F. Marsh and Ninth Circuit Judge Otto R. Skopil. She is the Appellate Chief for the US Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon.

Schwabe, John L. (John Leonard), 1919-2011

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  • 1919-2011

John Leonard Schwabe was born in Nowata, Oklahoma, in 1919. He earned a degree in pre-law from Oklahoma State University in 1941. He then enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Pacific theater during World War II. Before he shipped out in 1942, he and Jean Cooley were married; they later had four children. After his discharge in 1945, he studied law at Ohio State University, earning a law degree in 1948. He then practiced law in Silverton, Oregon, before coming to Portland in 1952. He became a partner in the Portland law firm Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt. He met Jimmy Carter when Carter was a Georgia state senator, and they became life-long friends. Schwabe died in 2011.

Saul, Karen E.

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Karen E. Saul, Esq. is an employment lawyer in Portland, Oregon.

Lincicum, Michael S., 1946-

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  • 1946-

Michael Scott Lincicum was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1946. He attended Willamette University with a double major in Russian and political science, graduating in 1968. He then attended the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his master's degree in 1969. He transferred to the University of Oregon to continue working toward a Ph.D., but he was unable to complete it. That same year, he and Bernice Louise Balcomb were married. They later had two children. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. From 1970 to 1972, he worked for the Oregon Educational Coordinating Commission, where he conducted a study on education programs for children with disabilities. He worked as a budget analyst for the Oregon Budget and Management Division from 1973 to 1983, and as administrative services director for the Oregon Children Services Department from 1983 to 1984. He was administrative services director for the Oregon Mental Health Services Department for about two years, beginning in 1984, and briefly served as acting director around 1986. He also served as deputy director of the department from 1987 to around 1992. He then worked as an administrator for the Oregon Health Plan in the mid-1990s, then returned to the Oregon Budget and Management Division. He retired in 2000.

Sills, Mary Jane, 1922-2010

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  • 1922-2010

Mary Jane Sills, nee Christgau, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1922. She attended Reed College, but dropped out in 1941 to join the civil service during World War II. She worked for the War Department in Portland until the end of the war, and as a secretary for a law association for a few years. From 1954 to 1967, she worked as an aide to U.S. Senators Richard Neuberger and Maurine Neuberger. In 1969, she and Harold Sills were married, and the couple lived in Oakland, California. She died in 2010.

DeLap, Mary Ann

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Mary Ann DeLap is a court clerk at the Oregon District Court.

Deiz, Mercedes F. L. (Mercedes Frances Lopez), 1917-2005

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Mercedes Frances Deiz, nee Lopez, was born in 1917 to a Czech mother and a Cuban father in New York City. She attended Hunter College in New York from 1936 to 1939, but did not graduate. While she was attending Hunter, she and Billy Owens were married in 1937; they later had one child. Deiz came to Oregon in 1948 in order to obtain a divorce, which was finalized in 1949. Although she originally planned to return to New York afterward, she fell in love with Portland, Oregon, and remained. She was inspired to get involved with the NAACP and Urban League after being refused service at a drive-in restaurant in Portland, which she described as the first overt racial discrimination she had ever experienced. She met Carl Deiz while working at the IRS and they were married in 1949; they later had two children. She worked in the law library at the Bonneville Power Administration from 1949 to 1953, then as a legal secretary for Graham Walker in 1954. Walker encouraged her to become a lawyer. Walker paid the tuition for Deiz's first semester at the Northwestern College of Law. She earned her law degree in 1959. She passed the bar in 1960 and practiced law in Portland until 1967, when she became a hearing officer for the Oregon Workman's Compensation Board, the first woman to hold that position. In 1969, Governor Tom McCall appointed Deiz to the U.S. District Court of Oregon, making her the first black woman judge in Oregon. In 1973, she was elected to the Oregon Circuit Court. She took senior status in 1992. She died in 2005.

Gillette, W. Michael, 1941-

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William Michael Gillette was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1941. A few years later, he moved with his family to Milton-Freewater, Oregon. In 1963, he earned a bachelor's degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and in 1966, he earned a law degree from Harvard University. Later that year, he joined the law firm of Rives and Rogers in Portland, Oregon. He worked as a prosecutor for the Multnomah County district attorney's office, then from 1969 to 1971, he served as an assistant attorney general for American Samoa. In 1971, he returned to Portland and served as chief counsel of the Consumer Protection Division of the Oregon attorney general's office. In 1973, he became solicitor general of Oregon. From 1977 to 1986, he served as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, and from 1986 to 2010, he served as a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court. After retiring from the court, he joined the Schwabe, Williamson, and Wyatt law firm in Portland. He also taught at Portland State University, at the Northwest College of Law at Lewis and Clark College, and at Willamette University.

Gillette was married twice. His first marriage was to Judy Saima Cox, in 1960; they had two children and later divorced. He remarried to Toni Boone.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Gillette in his interview.

Skelton, Keith D. (Keith Dexter), 1918-1995

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Keith Dexter Skelton was born in Pennsylvania in 1918. He graduated from Edinboro State Teachers College in 1939. He then studied history at the University of Michigan until 1941, when he was forced to drop out due to financial hardship. He then worked as an insurance adjuster for Liberty Mutual in various cities around New England. He was drafted in 1941, but his service was deferred because he was engaged to be married. He and Ruth Ellen Blake married that year and later had four children. Skelton enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1942 and served in the Pacific theater during World War II. After his discharge in 1945, he returned to his job at Liberty Mutual. He completed a master's degree through the University of Michigan by mail, then attended Syracuse Law School, then transferred to the University of Washington Law School and earned his law degree in 1949. He practiced law in Eugene, Oregon, beginning in 1951. He also worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon. He was a Democratic politician and represented Lane County in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1957 to 1960. He relocated to Portland and represented Multnomah County in the House from 1965 to 1974. Skelton and Ruth Ellen Blake divorced in 1967, and he and fellow legislator Betty Roberts married in 1968. After leaving the Legislature, he returned to the practice of law in Portland and also served on the Portland Community College Board. He died in 1995.

Jernstedt, Ken (Kenneth Allen), 1917-2003

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Kenneth Allen Jernstedt was born in Yamhill County, Oregon, in 1917. He attended Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. In 1941, he joined the U.S. Marines air corps and trained as a marine aviator, but before deployment, he was recruited into the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, also known as the Flying Tigers. He married his first wife, Laura Elliot, in 1943, shortly after returning from the war. He returned to Oregon to raise his family in 1946 and purchased Hood River Bottling Works, which he ran for the next 25 years. Laura Jernstedt died in 1960, and he married in 1962, to Genevieve Weder Carl. He served as mayor of Hood River from 1959 to 1961, and again from 1980 to 1991. He was a Republican and represented Hood River in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1967 to 1968; Hood River and Wasco counties in the Oregon Senate from 1969 to 1984; and Sherman, Gilliam, Wasco, Jefferson, and Wheeler counties from 1985 to 1988. He died in 2003.

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