Oral history interview with W. Michael Gillette conducted by Michael O’Rourke from May 16, 2012, to December 10, 2014, as part of the United States District Court of Oregon Oral History Project. Gillette discusses his career as a lawyer and prosecutor in Oregon and American Samoa, and his service as a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1977 to 1986, and as a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1986 to 2010.