the unanimous court for the 2008 edition of Williams v. Philip Morris, Inc., a case that had already been to the United States Supreme Court twice. The opinion upheld the punitive damages award against the tobacco company. He declined to run for re-election in 2010 and his term ended on December 31, 2010. Later years In the past he served as a faculty member of Willamette University, and as an instructor at Portland State University. Gillette served on the Board of Trustees from 1977 to 1980 for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. He worked on the Advisory Committee of Scholars for the Constitution Project starting in 1984, and in 1991 was named Classroom Law Project's Legal Citizen of the Year. The following year Gillette received an honorary LL.D. degree from Whitman College. In 2006, he was awarded the V. Robert Payant Award in 2006 for teaching excellence from the National Judicial College, and named one of the 500 Leading Judges in America in 2006 by Lawdragon. A basketball player in high school, he serves as a referee for high school games when away from court. The Wilsonville resident returned to private practice after leaving the bench, joining Portland law firm of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in January 2011. References 1941 births Living people 20th-century American judges 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges Harvard Law School alumni Justices of the Oregon Supreme Court Oregon Court of Appeals judges People from Milton-Freewater, Oregon People from Wilsonville, Oregon Whitman College alumni Willamette University faculty