Randall Blair Kester[1] (October 20, 1916 – May 31, 2012) was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon.

He later taught at what became the Lewis & Clark Law School and was in private practice in Portland, Oregon, decades after leaving the bench.

[3] In 1937 as president of the senior class he helped break ground on a new library for Willamette.

[3] After graduation from Columbia, Kester moved to Portland, Oregon and joined the law firm of Maguire, Shields and Morrison where the primary client was the Union Pacific Railroad.

[3] While working for UP in 1972 he filed briefs in support of the lower court's decision in the Supreme Court of the United States case Port of Portland v. United States in a decision regarding interstate commerce.