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The Supreme Court of Oklahoma is a court of appeal for non-criminal cases, one of the two highest judicial bodies in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and leads the judiciary of Oklahoma, the judicial branch of the government of Oklahoma. [1] The Oklahoma Supreme Court meets in the Oklahoma Judicial Center, having previously met in the Oklahoma State ...
The court was established when Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, and was initially composed of five justices, with the state divided into a corresponding number of judicial districts. [1] In 1917, the court was expanded to nine justices, with the judicial districts being redrawn accordingly, and with the seats for the fourth and fives ...
Oklahoma Territorial Supreme Court justices (9 P) Pages in category "Justices of the Oklahoma Supreme Court" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is Oklahoma’s court of last resort in all civil matters and all matters concerning the Oklahoma Constitution. It consists of nine justices appointed by the governor to serve life terms, but unlike U.S. Supreme Court justices, they are subject to an election every six years in which voters choose whether or not to ...
The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals was established by the state legislature in 1970 under Title 20, section 30.1, of the Oklahoma Statutes, which provides: "There is hereby established an intermediate appellate court to be known as the Court of Civil Appeals of the State of Oklahoma which shall have the power to determine or otherwise dispose of any cases that are assigned to it by the ...
Courts of Oklahoma include: State courts of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Supreme Court (civil) [1] Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (criminal) [2] Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals [1] Oklahoma District Courts (26 judicial districts with 77 district courts) [1] Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court [3] Federal courts located in Oklahoma
The Oklahoma House of Representatives formally elects the speaker on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January in odd-numbered years. [2] After the speaker is elected, he is sworn in by the chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. An example of a case in which a speaker was elected under special circumstances was in 1983.
Tom Colbert (born December 30, 1949) is a former Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Court's District 6 seat in 2004, by Governor Brad Henry, becoming the first African-American to serve on the court. On January 4, 2013, he was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and served In that post until ...