Aruna Masih

{{Infobox judge

|name = Aruna Masih

|office = Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

|appointer = Tina Kotek

|term_start = September 1, 2023

|term_end =

|predecessor = Adrienne Nelson

|successor =

|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1971}}

|birth_place = New York, U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|education = Wellesley College (BA)
Creighton University (JD)

}}

Aruna Anne Masih (born 1971){{cite web |title=The Faces of Justice Vol. 2 |url=https://afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Faces-of-Justice-Vol-2-AAPI-Judges-Report.pdf#page=17 |website=Alliance for Justice |date=May 2024}} is an American labor lawyer from Oregon who has served as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court since 2023.

Education

Masih was born in New York to a Punjabi father and a British mother, both of whom were medical missionaries.{{Cite web |last=Kulkarni |first=Bhargavi |date=August 17, 2023 |title=Aruna Masih Becomes First Indian and South Asian American Justice on Oregon State High Court |url=https://americankahani.com/lead-stories/aruna-masih-becomes-first-indian-and-south-asian-american-justice-on-oregon-state-high-court/ |access-date=October 5, 2023 |website=American Kahani |language=en-US}} She and her siblings attended Woodstock School. She attended Wellesley College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude in international relations and French in 1994 and a Juris Doctor from the Creighton University School of Law in 1997.{{Cite web |title=Aruna Anne Masih Profile {{!}} Portland, OR Lawyer {{!}} Martindale.com |url=https://www.martindale.com/attorney/ms-aruna-anne-masih-1505503/ |access-date=October 5, 2023 |website=www.martindale.com}}

Career

Throughout her 25-year legal career, Masih was with the firm McKanna Bishop Joffe in Portland and prior to her appointment to the bench, she was partner in the law firm of Bennett Hartman. Her legal expertise centered around the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System and pension case law.{{Cite press release |title=Governor Kotek Appoints Aruna Masih to Oregon Supreme Court |date=August 16, 2023 |location=Salem, Oregon |url=https://www.oregon.gov/newsroom/pages/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=166976 |access-date=October 5, 2023}}

= Appointment to Oregon Supreme Court =

On August 16, 2023, Governor Tina Kotek announced her appointment of Masih to the Oregon Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the appointment of Adrienne Nelson to the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. She was sworn into office on September 1, 2023.{{Cite web |date=September 1, 2023 |title=Oregon Judicial Department : Judge Biography : Oregon State Courts : State of Oregon |url=https://www.courts.oregon.gov/courts/Pages/bio.aspx?person=196 |access-date=October 5, 2023 |website=www.courts.oregon.gov}} She is the first Indian American, South Asian American and Punjabi to serve on the court.