Jacqueline S. Kamins is running for a full term as Oregon Court of Appeals judge in Position 9. The nonpartisan race appears on the Nov. 3, 2026, general election ballot.

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) and juris doctor from the University of Virginia (2002), according to BallotReady profile data.

Community involvement: Kamins lists volunteer work as a facilitator at the Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families since 2013, a shelter volunteer at Path Home since 2018 and a drama club instructor at ACCESS Academy since 2022, according to her Oregon Voter's Pamphlet statement.

Experience and public service

Kamins clerked for Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2002 to 2003, according to her voter's pamphlet statement. She then worked as an associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP from 2004 to 2006, according to the same statement.

She served as an assistant attorney general at the Oregon Department of Justice from 2006 to 2015, according to BallotReady profile data.

She also taught as an adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark Law School from 2009 to 2019, a role that overlapped with both her time at the DOJ and her next position, according to BallotReady.

Kamins then worked as an assistant county attorney at Multnomah County from 2015 to 2019, according to BallotReady. She worked at Markowitz Herbold PC from 2019 to 2020 before her appointment to the Court of Appeals, according to BallotReady.

Kamins served as president of the Federal Bar Association's Oregon chapter in 2020, according to her voter's pamphlet statement.

Responses are based on public data and answers to a Surround Sound Media questionnaire if they were provided.