1998 she has been a professor at Willamette's law school. Linder was the first woman elected to the Oregon Supreme Court; all previous female justices had been appointed to fill vacancies. She was also the first ever openly lesbian member of a state supreme court anywhere in the nation and the first openly LGBT person elected as a non-incumbent to a state supreme court. When in office, she served as one of eight openly LGBT supreme court justices in the United States, alongside fellow Oregonian Rives Kistler, Colorado Supreme Court justice Monica Marquez, Hawaii Supreme Court justice Sabrina McKenna, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice Barbara Lenk, Connecticut Supreme Court justice Andrew J. McDonald, Vermont Supreme Court justice Beth Robinson, and Washington Supreme Court justice Mary Yu. Her 2006 election campaign was supported by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. See also List of LGBT jurists in the United States List of LGBT state supreme court justices in the United States References External links Supreme Court biography Entry in the State of Oregon Voters' Pamphlet, page 24 1953 births Living people 20th-century American judges 20th-century American women judges 20th-century American women lawyers 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American judges 21st-century American women judges American women academics Justices of the Oregon Supreme Court Lawyers from Salem, Oregon Lesbian politicians LGBT appointed officials in the United States LGBT judges LGBT lawyers LGBT people from Colorado LGBT people from Oregon Oregon Court of Appeals judges People from Carmichael, California Politicians from Salem, Oregon Solicitors General of Oregon Southern Oregon University alumni Willamette University College of Law alumni Willamette University College of Law faculty American women legal scholars American legal scholars