JD & LLM Commencement

Honorable Mustafa T. Kasubhai, JD ’96, to deliver address at 2026 Oregon Law Commencement

University of Oregon School of Law graduate Honorable Mustafa T. Kasubhai, JD ’96, will be the distinguished speaker for the Oregon Law Juris Doctor and Master of Laws commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2026.

Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai, JD ’96, was confirmed by the United States Senate as US District Court Judge for the District of Oregon in November 2024, the first Asian American lifetime judge and third Muslim lifetime judge in our nation’s history. Prior to that, Kasubhai served as a federal magistrate judge starting in 2018 and spent eleven years as a state circuit court judge in the Oregon Judicial Department at the Lane County Circuit Court. Before judicial service, Judge Kasubhai practiced law in Eugene and Klamath Falls and served as a member ofthe Oregon Workers’ Compensation Board.

Kasubhai has been involved in a number of other efforts benefitting the legal profession through the years, including as a member of the Oregon District Court Judicial Equity Committee, the Joint State & Federal Workgroup on Unconscious Bias Education, secretary of the Oregon South Asian Bar Association, chair of the Attorney Admission Fund for Oregon District Court, member of the Oregon State Bar Leadership Institute Advisory Board, co-founder and president of the Oregon Muslim Bar Association, and co-founder of the Oregon Mediation Diversity Project.

Recognized for his exemplary work in the Oregon legal community, Kasubhai has received number of awards: Oregon Law’s Frohnmayer Award for Public Service in 2024 for his commitment to the law school, the Oregon State Bar’s Wallace P. Carson Jr. Judicial Excellence Award in 2022, and the Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer by the National Asian/Pacific-American Bar Association and Justice Lynn Nakamoto Trailblazer by the Oregon Asian/Pacific-American Bar Association in 2018.