Judge Karin Immergut
Oregon U.S. District Court
Karin Johanna Immergut was born in 1960 in New York City, New York. She earned an undergraduate degree from Amherst College and received a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley. She served as a special assistant in the New York City Departments of Juvenile Justice and Corrections before studying law.
Immergut worked in private practice before serving as a Central District of California assistant U.S. attorney. She returned to private practice in Vermont. She then worked as the deputy district attorney in Portland, Oregon. She then served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Oregon.
President George W. Bush nominated Immergut as U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon in October 2003. She was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in days later. President Donald Trump nominated her as a federal judge in the District of Oregon in June 2018. Her nominated was returned in January 2019 and President Trump renominated her. She was confirmed by the Senate in July and received her commission in August 2019.
Immergut is married to James McDermott.
In the News…
Oregon District Senior Judge Karin Immergut ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration had not established a “rebellion or danger of rebellion” in Portland to justify the deployment of the National Guard. She made permanent the temporary injunctions previously imposed in the case that prohibited deploying the troops.
“The trial record showed that although protests outside the Portland ICE building occurred nightly between June and October 2025, ever since a few particularly disruptive days in mid-June, protests have remained peaceful with only isolated and sporadic instances of violence,” Judge Immergut wrote.
“The occasional interference to federal officers has been minimal, and there is no evidence that these small-scale protests have significantly impeded the execution of any immigration laws.”
“This Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither ‘a rebellion or danger of a rebellion’ nor was the President ‘unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States’ in Oregon when he ordered the federalization and deployment of the National Guard.”
The Justice Department has filed an appeal.
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The Honorable Karin Immergut
U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse
1000 Southwest Third Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97204
