Otto Richard Skopil Jr. (June 3, 1919 – October 18, 2012) was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon.

Of German ancestry, he was a veteran of World War II and received both his undergraduate education and law degree from Willamette University.

[1] His parents, Otto Richard Skopil and Freda Martha Boetticher, were working-class German immigrants who lived in the Salem, Oregon, area.

[1] Otto then dropped out of law school after two years to enlist in the United States Navy along with two classmates.

[1][2] The university created a special class to allow him and other veterans to start mid-term and resume where they had left off before the war.

[2] In 1990, he was appointed to the Long Range Planning Committee of the federal court system by Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

At the beginning of his time in private practice he partnered with his attorney uncle Ralph Skopil.