James Anthony Redden Jr. (March 13, 1929 – March 31, 2020) was an American judge and politician from Oregon. He was a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, from 1995 to 2020, and, before that, had served as a federal judge since 1980. Before his appointment to the bench, he was a trial attorney, and a career Democratic politician, serving as a legislator and in two of the state's constitutional offices, as Treasurer and Attorney General.
James Anthony Redden
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
Born 1929 in Springfield, MA
Died 2020
FJC ID: 1977
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 1/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 39/year
Oregon District Court · 1980–2020
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- State of OregonAttorney general · 1977–1980
- State of OregonTreasurer · 1973–1976
- Private practice, Medford, Oregon1956–1972
- Public Employee Relations BoardChairman · 1969–1972
- OregonState representative · 1963–1969
- ↳minority leader · 1967–1969
- Allstate Insurance CorporationClaims adjuster · 1956
- Private practice, Springfield, Massachusetts1954–1955
- Title & Trust Insurance Company, OregonTitle examiner · 1955
U.S. Army1946–1948
Appointments
1980–2020 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1954