9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Portland)
Career Highlights: Assumed senior status, 2016; appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986; chairman, Advisory Panel to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, 1983-85; team leader, President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission), 1982-83; consultant, Office of the President-Elect of the United States (Reagan), 1980-81; director, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, 1973-74; public utility commissioner, State of Oregon, 1971-73; deputy attorney general, State of Oregon, 1969-71; private practice, Portland, Oregon, 1965-69, 1975-86; tax attorney, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and New York City, 1963-1965; U.S. Army Reserve, JAG Corps, 1955-78
Law School: Harvard Law School, 1963
Career Highlights: Assumed senior status, 2016; appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986; chairman, Advisory Panel to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, 1983-85; team leader, President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission), 1982-83; consultant, Office of the President-Elect of the United States (Reagan), 1980-81; director, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, 1973-74; public utility commissioner, State of Oregon, 1971-73; deputy attorney general, State of Oregon, 1969-71; private practice, Portland, Oregon, 1965-69, 1975-86; tax attorney, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and New York City, 1963-1965; U.S. Army Reserve, JAG Corps, 1955-78
Law School: Harvard Law School, 1963
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Circuit Judge Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain is a proud conservative on the left-leaning 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He's in an increasingly lonely spot, as the political balance of the court shifts toward judges appointed by Democratic presidents.
O'Scannlain hews to tradition. When he travels from his seat in Portland, Ore., where President Reagan placed him in 1986, to San Francisco for oral argum... (continued)
