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Article: This judge refuses to court limelight.(Courts)(From the Thurston shooting to PERS, David Brewer isn't one to blow his own horn)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2005
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Byline: PROFILE By Bill Bishop The Register-Guard
Judges are like sports referees, says Chief Judge David Brewer of the Oregon Court of Appeals.
The good ones don't draw a lot of attention to themselves.
And so Brewer says he loathes the limelight that fell on him after the biggest court ruling in state history, in which he was appointed to sort out the morass of issues regarding the Public Employees Retirement System reforms in advance of the Oregon Supreme Court's ruling.
With $8 billion, the retirement benefits of tens of thousands of state employees and the state's financial stability in the balance, it was a once-in-a-career task. ...