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For the first time in state history, Oklahomans voted Tuesday against keeping a member of the state Supreme Court. And though the loss of a justice will most certainly alter the dynamic of the ...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Noma Gurich, shown here in February, was appointed to the bench in 2011. She is one of three justices facing a retention vote Nov. 5.
Judicial ethics prevents judges facing retention votes from campaigning unless there’s active opposition to their remaining in the post. It’s expensive to wage a statewide election campaign.
Huber graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1990 and the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1993. He started his legal career at Malloy and Associates. [1] He managed the J. R. Huber Law Firm from 1995 to 2005 and The Collier & Huber Law Firm from 2005 to 2019. [2] From 2019 to 2020, he served as a special judge for Tulsa County. [3]
Brian Goree (born March 18, 1964) is a Justice on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.Born in 1964 in Killeen, Texas, and raised in Tulsa, he graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, then earned a J.D. degree at the University of Tulsa College of Law.
In 1993, he became a staff attorney for Judge Carl Jones of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. He worked in this capacity until Governor Frank Keating appointed him to the Court of Appeals in 2002, filling the District 6 vacancy left by the retirement of Judge James Garrett. In 2009, Mitchell served for one year as Chief Judge. [5]
We all want unbiased, non-political judges who will give each party to a dispute a fair playing field. We want judges to apply the Oklahoma Constitution and state laws to the facts of each dispute ...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court consists of a chief justice, a vice-chief justice, and seven associate justices, who are nominated by the Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission and are appointed by the governor. After appointment, the justices serve until the next general state election. At that time, they must face a retention election. If ...