How do judges of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1955 / Served to 1956

A. C. Hunt

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

A. C. Hunt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1956
Tenure: 1955–1956 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunt authored 116 published opinions for the court (1925–1956), plus 10 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: C. C. Julian Oil & Royalties Co. v. Capshaw (40 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 13 of these were attributed to Hunt by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1930	C. C. Julian Oil & Royalties Co. v. Capshaw· Concurrence	292 P. 841	40
1929	City of Okmulgee v. Okmulgee Gas Co.· Dissent	282 P. 640	35
1926	Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Long· Dissent	251 P. 495	35
1928	Bishop v. Benear· Dissent	270 P. 569	32
1925	Graham v. Childers· Dissent	241 P. 178	25
1927	Wenner v. Mothersead· Dissent	264 P. 816	24
1956	Duncan Brothers v. Robinson	294 P.2d 822	19
1929	El Reno Broom Co. v. Roberts	281 P. 273	19
1925	Beatty v. Beatty	242 P. 766	19
1929	Reid v. City of Muskogee	278 P. 339	18
1927	Myers v. Myers· Dissent	266 P. 452	18
1956	Wat Henry Pontiac, Inc. v. Pitcock	301 P.2d 203	17
1927	Bass Furn. & Carpet Co. v. Finley	263 P. 130	17
1926	Dove v. Oglesby· Separate	244 P. 798	17
1956	General Finance Corporation v. Jackson	296 P.2d 141	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was A. C. Hunt on?: A. C. Hunt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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1 year on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).