Fall Luncheon 2024
Annual Fall Luncheon
Speaker 12-1 is free, open to all League members and guests from the community with a reservation.
Guest Speaker will be Judge Mustafa Kasubhai
TUE OCT 22, 2024
The Community at Marquis in Eugene
11:30-12:00 | Luncheon
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Mustafa Kasubhai has served as a federal magistrate in Eugene since 2018 and is seeking a lifetime appointment as a U.S. District Court judge.
President Joe Biden nominated Kasubhai to take over for U.S. District Court Judge [for Oregon] Ann Aiken, who is taking senior status, a form of semi-retirement in which judges often dramatically reduce their caseload. Kasubhai was the first Muslim American on the federal bench when he became a magistrate. Before that he spent roughly a decade as a judge on the Lane County Circuit Court and also practiced civil law in Eugene and Klamath Falls.
He told senators that “humility is the foundation” of the courts and of upholding the nation’s laws.
“So what I try to do when I sit on the bench is I extend to people graciousness and patience so that they have not just the opportunity to be heard, but to be deeply heard,” Kasubhai testified. “When I issue a ruling whether somebody prevails or doesn’t prevail, I want that ruling to be conveyed in a way that helps them to think of the court as a place in which decisions can be decided impartially without regard to who they are and that they were heard.”