The investiture ceremony for Alycia N. Sykora as Circuit Court Judge for Position Four of the 11th Judicial District is set for 3pm on Friday, November 1 at the Deschutes County Courthouse, Courtroom C. Presiding Judge Wells B. Ashby will preside over the ceremony and administer the Oath of Office. The public is welcome to attend.
Sykora takes the position previously held by Circuit Court Judge A. Michael Adler who retired at the end of June. Governor Brown announced Sykora’s appointment to the court on September 26. The appointment will run through January 4, 2021. Sykora must stand for election in 2020 to seek a full six-year term that would commence in January 2021.
Presiding Judge Wells Ashby praised a judicial selection process that included participation at both the local and state level. “The selection process engaged in by the Governor and her staff, in concert with our local selection committee, has once again resulted in an extremely qualified attorney being appointed to serve the people of Deschutes County. Ms. Sykora’s service as a Judge Pro Tempore has acquainted the court with her work ethic, integrity and legal acumen.”
Sykora graduated from the University of Michigan and the University of Oregon School of Law. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable George A. Van Hoomissen on the Oregon Supreme Court, then served as an Honors Attorney at the Oregon Department of Justice. Since 2002, Sykora has been an attorney in Bend. She has served as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Deschutes County Circuit Court since 2012. Sykora was awarded the Oregon State Bar’s Edwin J. Peterson Award for Professionalism in 2015.
Her publications include The Oregon Constitution and Cases and several chapters on civil procedure in the Oregon State Bar Books. She is an editor of the Oregon Constitutional Law Manual. Sykora is past president and a current board member of the Deschutes County Bar Association and the Constitutional Law Section of the Oregon State Bar and has presented continuing legal education seminars on developments in constitutional law for over a decade. She serves on the Executive Committee of the American Constitution Society’s Oregon Lawyer Chapter, the Oregon Bench and Bar Commission on Professionalism and the Appellate Practice Section of the Oregon State Bar. Sykora has taught Introduction to Comparative Politics at Central Oregon Community College and for ten years has coordinated the Constitution in the Classroom Project in Central Oregon, matching local teachers and attorneys for classroom visits.
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