Albin Walter Norblad III (March 15, 1939 - February 10, 2014) is a lawyer in the US state of Oregon, and an Oregon Circuit Court judge for the 3rd district district, in Marion County in Salem. He was named for his father, A. Walter Norblad, and grandfather, A. W. Norblad, both Oregon prosecutors and leading politicians.
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Norblad was born in Astoria, Oregon in 1939, and moved with his family to Stayton, Oregon in 1953. Following the release of the US Army in 1958 and a one-year study at Georgetown University, Norblad obtained a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oregon. in 1963, and a law degree from Willamette University in 1965. Norblad's father died in office in 1964, and Norblad was considered running for his post in the United States House of Representatives, but Wendell Wyatt was elected instead.
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Legal career
Before serving as a state court judge, Norblad served as a city court judge and a deputy district attorney.
His long career as a lawyer included a number of controversial and high-profile cases, including a 1994 decision enforcing state law prohibiting the enforcement of local anti-gay rights rules. As a child court judge during the 1970s, Norblad made hundreds of unpopular decisions, reportedly sending more youth to the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility than any other judge in the state.
The judge was disciplined by the Oregon Commission on Fitness and Court Disability in 2002 with a thirty day delay following a drunken driving incident, an act enforced on appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Next life and death
He is the longest sitting judge in the state. According to Article VII of the Oregon Constitution, he must retire by the end of 2014. He died in Salem, Oregon on February 10, 2014, from cerebral hemorrhage after a fall; he is 74 years old.
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