Legal Career
After law school George Van Hoomissen worked as a law clerk for the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1957 until 1959. In 1959, he went into private legal practice in Portland and served as a 28 year-old Democrat to the Oregon Legislature. Van Hoomissen won re-election to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1960. In 1962, he began an eight year stint as the district attorney (DA) for Multnomah County after defeating Charles E. Raymond in the election. As the DA he hired future Oregon Supreme Court justices Jacob Tanzer and W. Michael Gillette, and future judges Garr M. King, George M. Joseph, and William L. Richardson. He won re-election in 1966 and 1970, but ran unsuccessfully in 1968 for the Secretary of State office losing to Clay Myers by approximately 12,000 votes. In 1971, he resigned as the DA and moved to Texas to become dean of the National College of District Attorneys and a professor at the University of Houston’s Bates College of Law.
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