[2] After law school she clerked for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin and was a judicial fellow for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger's office.
[2] She also married fellow professor Richard S. Hall, Jr.[1] In December 1992, Leeson was appointed to the Oregon Court of Appeals.
[3] On February 26, 1998, Governor John Kitzhaber appointed Leeson to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Edward N.
Leeson received the Betty Roberts Award from Oregon Women Lawyers in 2003, and she was named Legal Citizen of the Year in 2006.
She was an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon School of Law for two years, teaching mediation skills, and was the lead principal writer for the 2009 edition of "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" for the Center for Civic Education.