Albin W. Norblad
{{Short description|American attorney and judge (1939–2014)}}
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| office = Judge for the Marion County Circuit Court
| termstart = 1973
| termend = 2014
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| birth_name = Albin Walter Norblad III
| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|3|15}}
| birth_place = Astoria, Oregon
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|02|10|1939|3|15}}
| death_place = Salem, Oregon
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| alma_mater =University of Oregon
Willamette University College of Law
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Albin Walter Norblad III (March 15, 1939 – February 10, 2014) was an attorney in the U.S. state of Oregon, and a judge of the Oregon Circuit Court for the 3rd judicial district, in Marion County at Salem.{{cite web | title = Earliest Authorities in Oregon - Circuit Court Judges | work = Oregon Blue Book (Online) | publisher = Oregon Secretary of State | year = 2006 | url = https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Documents/elections/history-officials.pdf | accessdate = 2008-01-12 }}{{cite web | title = Marion County Circuit Court: Judges and Judicial Staff | publisher = Oregon Judicial Department | year = 2006 | url = http://www.ojd.state.or.us/mar/judges.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-14 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061114174627/http://www.ojd.state.or.us/mar/judges.htm |archivedate = 2006-11-14}}
He was named for his father, A. Walter Norblad, and grandfather, A. W. Norblad, both prominent Oregon attorneys and politicians.
Early life
Norblad was born in Astoria, Oregon in 1939, and moved with his family to Stayton, Oregon in 1953. After a United States Army discharge in 1958 and a year's study at Georgetown University,{{cite news|url=http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014302110021 |last=Wong |first=Peter |title=Longtime county judge Albin Norblad dies at age 74 |date=February 11, 2014 |work=Statesman Journal |access-date=11 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140211234034/http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014302110021 |archive-date=11 February 2014 }} Norblad obtained a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oregon in 1963, and a law degree from the Willamette University in 1965. Norblad's father died in office in 1964, and Norblad considered running for his seat in the United States House of Representatives, however Wendell Wyatt was elected instead.
Legal career
Before becoming a state court judge, Norblad served as a municipal court judge and a deputy district attorney.{{cite news | last = Taylor | first = Kate |author2= Lavelle Svart | title = Adoption case judge focuses on law | work = The Oregonian | date = 1998-12-05 | url = http://www.plumsite.com/oregon/oregonian-981205.html | accessdate = 2006-12-14}}
His lengthy career as a jurist included a number of controversial and high-profile cases, including a 1994 decision upholding a state law banning enforcement of local anti-gay rights ordinances. As a juvenile court judge during the 1970s, Norblad made hundreds of unpopular decisions, reportedly sending more youths to MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility than any other judge in the state.
The judge was disciplined by the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability in 2002 with a thirty-day suspension following a drunk driving incident, an action which was upheld on appeal to the state Supreme Court.{{cite web | title = Decision: In re The Honorable Albin W. Norblad (CJFD 00-010; SC S48522) | work = Oregon Judicial Department Appellate Court Opinions | publisher = Oregon Judicial Department | year = 2002 | url = http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/S48522.htm | access-date = 2006-12-14 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061231223308/http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/S48522.htm| archive-date= 31 December 2006 | url-status= live}}
Later life and death
He was the state's longest sitting judge. According to Article VII of the Oregon Constitution, he would have had to retire at the end of 2014. He died in Salem, Oregon on February 10, 2014, from a brain hemorrhage after a fall; he was 74.
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