Adrian L. Brown, an assistant U.S. attorney, will enter a runoff for a Multnomah County Circuit judge position in the November general election.
Her opponent was still unclear Tuesday night. The race for second place was between civil attorney Rima Ghandour, with 22 percent of the vote, and another civil attorney, Sonia Montalbano, with 19.5 percent, at 10 p.m. in partial returns. Brown had 33 percent.
The top two vote-getters will move onto the general election because no one in the race received at least 50 percent of the vote.
Brown, 44, has been an assistant attorney in Oregon for 12 years. She serves as the office’s civil rights coordinator and has handled cases involving the state’s mental health system, Portland police practices and disability access. She previously worked for seven years as a lawyer for the U.S. Air Force’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where she served as a trial counsel and defense counsel for Air Force personnel.
Ghandour, 47, has her own civil law practice in Portland called Ghandour Law that specializes in construction defect, personal injury, products liability, commercial/business litigation and insurance coverage. Ghandour was previously a partner at Wiles Law Group, a staff counsel for Liberty Mutual Insurance and Safeco Insurance and a deputy county counsel for Orange County.
Montalbano, 50, works for the Portland firm McKean Smith, which specializes in employment and business law. She previously worked as an associate and partner at Elliott, Ostrander & Preston, and was in private practice.
Also in the race, but not acquiring enough votes for the runoff, were:
Ernest Warren Jr., 59, a Portland criminal defense attorney and a managing member of the firm Warren & Sugarman, which he established in 1990 as the first black-owned law firm in the state. He previously worked for the Metropolitan Public Defender’s Office from 1989 to 1990. He also served as general counsel for a nonprofit Portland developer of affordable housing.
John E. Schlosser, a defense attorney who has worked as a public defender and private practice attorney. He pointed to his track record standing up for immigrants, including forming an advocacy group to expedite granting citizenship to people who have served in the U.S. military and banning federal immigration officers from making warrantless arrests at the county courthouse.
Except for Schlosser, who self-funded his campaign with $5,500, all candidates had raised at least five figures, ranging from $28,000 for Warren to Ghandour’s $59,000, $20,000 of that from her family.
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The race is for the seat being vacated by Judge Gregory Silver, who was appointed in 2013 by Gov. John Kitzhaber. Silver’s term ends in January, but he said he’ll retire this summer. He alerted potential candidates well ahead of the March filing deadline that he wouldn’t seek election -- and that led to the crowded field for his seat: District 4, Position 12.
The timing of his retirement means that voters -- not Gov. Kate Brown -- will get to decide who fills Silver’s seat.
-- Betsy Hammond and Maxine Bernstein with The Oregon/OregonLive contributed to this report.
-- Aimee Green; agreen@oregonian.com; @o_aimee
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