He previously served on the International Tuna Commission, and later the Kansas native was Oregon’s first senior judge.

[1] His father was a judge for the Kansas Supreme Court who graduated from Washburn University School of Law five years before Gordon’s birth.

[2] After law school Gordon Sloan began working as an assistant district attorney in the city of Topeka, Kansas, until 1938.

[6] After retiring from the bench, Gordon Sloan was appointed as the first senior judge in the state of Oregon’s history.

[2] He was also appointed to the International Tuna Commission by United States President Harry Truman.