Clatsop County District Attorney
Marquis was appointed District Attorney in Clatsop County by then-Governor Barbara Roberts after his predecessor was convicted and disbarred for gross prosecutorial misconduct. Marquis was elected in 1994 and reelected in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Marquis served as a superdelegate to the 1996 Democratic National Convention.
In 1995 Marquis received the Animal Legal Defense Fund's "Jolene Malone Aggressive Enforcement Award" in recognition of his work on a particularly difficult animal abuse case and in 2006 was the recipient of the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation's William J. Schaefer Award.
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