{{Short description|American politician (born 1939)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jan Wyers | image = | image_size = 160px | caption = | state_senate = Oregon | district = 6th | term_start = January 10, 1977 | term_end = January 9, 1989 | predecessor = Loyal Lang | successor = Dick Springer | majority = | party = Democratic | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|1|2}} | birth_place = Hood River, Oregon | death_date = | death_place = | profession = attorney | relations = | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = | website = | partner = | branch = | service_years = | rank = | battles = | allegiance = }} '''Jan Gerbrand Wyers''' (born January 2, 1939), is a retired American politician who was a member of the Oregon State Senate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|title=Alphabetical List of Oregon's representatives|website=state.or.us|access-date=11 March 2024|archive-date=July 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724115642/https://library.state.or.us/repository/2011/201101131436324/index.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=legislators1977>{{cite web|title=Oregon Legislators and Staff Guide, 1977 Regular Session (59th)|publisher=Oregon State Archives|url=http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6785340|access-date=June 19, 2016}}</ref> He also worked as an attorney.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7eOAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Wyers,+Jan%22+AND+%221939%22|title=Oregon Blue Book|access-date=10 October 2014|year=1982}}</ref> He later served as a judge in the Multnomah County Circuit Court,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Valdez|first1=Angela|title=Running Free: Will fleeing from the cops become sound legal advice?|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-5189-running-free.html|access-date=2016-05-09|work=Willamette Week|date=January 3, 2006}}</ref> until retiring in 2006.<ref name="mbabar2006dec">{{cite news|last1=Madkour |first1=Stephen |title=Judges Gernant and Wyers Retire from Bench |url=http://www.mbabar.org/assets/documents/multnomah%20lawyer/ml_dec2006.pdf |work=Multnomah Lawyer |publisher=Multnomah Bar Association |date=December 2006 |page=9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906131634/http://www.mbabar.org/assets/documents/multnomah%20lawyer/ml_dec2006.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-06 }}</ref>
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