THE KEVIN MANNIX RESUME

EDUCATION

• J.D. Degree, University of Virginia Law School, May 1974.
• B.A. with distinction, University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, June 1971. Liberal Arts major.
• Graduated from Wakefield High School, Arlington, Virginia, in June 1967.

COURT ADMISSIONS

Oregon Supreme Court, 1974
U.S. District Court, Oregon, 1975
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1976
U.S. Supreme Court, 1978
U.S. Court of Military Appeals, 1978
U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1978
U.S. Court of Claims, 1978
U.S. Tax Court, 1978
U.S. District Court, Northern Marianas, 1978
Superior Court of Guam, 1979
U.S. District Court of Guam, 1979
U.S. Court of International Trade, 1980

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

January 1983 - January 1986
Associate
Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler
Portland, OR
Civil trial and appellate work, with emphasis on workers' compensation litigation.

January 1980 - January 1983
Administrative Law Judge
Workers' Compensation Board
Salem, OR
Served as an independent judicial officer, hearing and deciding litigation in workers' compensation matters. Handled 1300 cases; over 420 hearings held, and over 360 decisions by full Opinion and Order.

November 1978 - November 1979
Legal Counsel (Assistant Attorney General)
Department of Education
Government of Guam
Agana, Guam
Supervised two Assistant Legal Counsel in advising and representing the Board of Education and Department of Education in all legal affairs, including contracts, torts, personnel/labor relations, federal government program regulation, and juvenile matters.

September 1977- November 1978
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Division, Department of Law
Government of Guam
Agana, Guam
Handled agency advice, trials, and appeals involving criminal prosecution, land condemnation, environmental protection, land registration, torts, and contracts.

September 1975 - September 1977
Assistant Attorney General
(6 months Trial Division, 18 months Appellate Division)
Oregon Department of Justice
Salem, OR
Trial Division: Handled drunk driving implied consent cases, plus workers' compensation hearings.

Appellate Division: Briefed and argued 186 cases in federal and state appellate courts: 50% criminal, post-conviction, and prison discipline; 30 percent workers' compensation; 20% civil and administrative law cases.

August 1974 - August 1975
Law Clerk to Judge Robert H. Foley
Oregon Court of Appeals
Salem, OR

Read all briefs, prepared a bench memo on every case, sat in on all oral arguments, wrote draft opinions.

June 1967 - July 1974
Self-employed as a commercial photographer, Arlington and Charlottesville, Virginia. This included freelance assignments for Northern Virginia Sun newspaper, Arlington, from 1967 to summer of 1969.

Summer 1966
YMCA Day Camp Counselor
Arlington, VA

LEGISLATIVE SERVICE

• Oregon State Senate: Senator, August 1998 - January 1999 (Appointed to partial term)
• Oregon House of Representatives: 5 terms as a Representative, January 1989 - January 1997, January 1999 - January 2001
• Committees: Ways and Means (2 sessions); Judiciary (2 sessions); Chair, House Judiciary Committee on Criminal Law (1999); Special Committee on Workers' Compensation (1990); chair, Public Safety Subcommittee of House Appropriations (1993); Labor (2 sessions); Emergency board (2 interims).
• Chair: Farmworker Housing Task Force, 1999 - 2000
• Commission achieved consensus where none previously existed. Report adopted unanimously. All recommended legislation adopted by 2001 legislature.
• Chief sponsor of more successful legislation than any other member of the Oregon Legislature: 135 successful pieces of legislation including major reforms to criminal laws, the Oregon workers' compensation system, civil procedure, liability standards, adoption procedures, and tax court procedures.
  • Authored Oregon's Anti-stalking law.
  • Chief sponsor of Victims' Rights amendments to the Oregon Constitution.
  • Strengthened and expanded the Family Abuse Protection Act
  • Reformed Oregon's adoption laws.
  • Strengthened reforms to workers' compensation system.
  • Author of Measure 11: mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes.
  • Author of Measure 17: state prisoners must work full time in useful work.
  • Author of senior judges' plan, having retired judges help out on the bench.
  • Author of Tax Court Magistrate Division laws.

POLITICAL PARTY EXPERIENCE

Chair, Oregon Republican Party, January 2003 - July 2005

• Vice Chair, Oregon Republican Party, January 1999 - January 2001
• Chair, Oregon delegation to Republican National Convention, 2004
• Delegate, Republican National Convention, 2000
• Delegate, from Virginia, Democratic National Convention, 1972.

MAJOR COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Blanchet Catholic School, Salem, OR 1995 - Present. Co-founder of the school, and Chairman of the Board of Directors since its creation
• East Salem Rotary, Salem, OR 1982 - Present. President, 1987-1988
• Marion County Bar Association, 1980 - Present. Medical Legal Committee, 1986
• St. Joseph Church, Salem, OR 1974 - 1977, 1980 - Present
• Salem Catholic Schools Foundation, Salem, OR 1984 - Present. President, 1988 - 1989, 1991 - 1993, 1999 - Present
• Salem Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors, 2007 - Present.
• Life Directions, Board of Directors, 2007 - Present
• We Care Oregon, Senior Advocate, 2007 - Present
• Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance Board member and President, 2008 - Present

PERSONAL

Married to Susanna since June, 1974. Three children: Nicholas (1982), Gabriel (1984), and Emily (1987).

Kevin enjoys travel, photography, and SCUBA diving.

Kevin is fluent in Spanish. His father was with the U.S. foreign aid program and Kevin spent seven years growing up in Ecuador, Panama, and Bolivia.