Marco A. Hernandez
| Marco Antonio Hernandez | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
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Assumed office February 9, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Garr King |
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| Born |
Marco Antonio Hernandez 1957 (age 59–60) Nogales, Arizona |
| Education |
Western Oregon University B.A. University of Washington School of Law J.D. |
Marco Antonio Hernandez (born 1957) is an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. A native of Arizona, he served as a Circuit Court judge in Washington County from 1995 until 2011, including as presiding judge for three years. He currently serves as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Hernandez was born in Nogales, Arizona, in 1957 and is of Hispanic descent. He moved to Oregon at 17 and began work as a dishwasher, and then as a janitor before working his way through community college while working as a teacher's aide. Hernandez then moved on to a four-year school and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Oregon State College (now known as Western Oregon University) in 1983. He then attended the University of Washington School of Law and earned his Juris Doctor in 1986.
After law school he returned to Oregon where he spent three years working for Legal Aid Services of Oregon where he often represented farm workers. Following his time with legal aid, Hernandez the joined the Washington County District Attorney's office as a deputy prosecutor in 1989. Shortly before leaving office in January 1995, Governor Barbara Roberts appointed Hernandez to be a Circuit Court judge in Washington County, Oregon. In 2001, he allowed a claim for loss of companionship in a pet case to go to trial, the first time such as claim was allowed to go to trial in the United States. Hernandez served as presiding judge of the County's Circuit Court from 2002 to 2005. He won re-election to a new six-year term on the court in May 2008. He has also served as the judge for the county's Mental Health Court, and as presiding judge from 2002 until 2005.
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