Douglas L. Tookey, who has served on the Oregon Court of Appeals since 2013, is on the Nov. 3, 2026, general election ballot for Position 13. The race is nonpartisan.

Governor John Kitzhaber appointed Tookey to the seat on Oct. 17, 2013, according to the Oregon State Bar's Appellate Practice Section. His seat was one of three new positions the Oregon State Legislature created in 2012. He is certified for the ballot, according to BallotReady election data.

Candidate information

Office sought: Oregon Appeals Court Judge, Position 13

Party: Nonpartisan

Education: Bachelor of arts in English, University of Chicago; juris doctorate in law, Cornell Law School; LL.M. in law, National University of Singapore

Experience and public service

Before joining the bench, Tookey worked as an environmental law attorney in private practice, according to the bar's Appellate Practice Section. He served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Edward W. Nottingham at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, according to the same source.

He also served as a judicial law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals, according to BallotReady. Tookey started as a deputy at the Office of the Legislative Counsel before rising to senior deputy, according to BallotReady. He taught as an adjunct professor of law at Willamette University, also according to BallotReady.

His international work spanned more than a decade on projects to improve access to justice and respect for the rule of law in developing countries, the bar section noted. That work included Fulbright Scholarships in Singapore and Kazakhstan and serving as an observer to elections in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine. He also served as a U.S. Department of State Office of Citizen Exchanges and Dickinson College Fellow on managing environmental resources in the Middle East, according to the bar section.

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