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 1982 / Served to 1999

Alma Wilson

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Alma Wilson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–1999
Tenure: 1982–1999 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilson authored 252 published opinions for the court (1915–2000), plus 81 dissents and 44 concurrences. Most cited: Parks v. Norman Municipal Hospital (333 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. 188 of these were attributed to Wilson 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
1984	Parks v. Norman Municipal Hospital· Dissent†	684 P.2d 548	333
1995	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Eakin· Concurrence†	914 P.2d 644	173
1989	Silver v. Slusher· Dissent†	770 P.2d 878	138
1989	Hulsey v. Mid-America Preferred Insurance Co.· Dissent†	777 P.2d 932	132
1992	In Re Initiative Petition No. 349, State Question No. 642· Dissent†	838 P.2d 1	126
1984	Flanders v. Crane Co.	693 P.2d 602	121
1987	Fair School Finance Council of Oklahoma, Inc. v. State· Dissent†	746 P.2d 1135	119
1993	Ethics Commission v. Cullison· Concurrence†	850 P.2d 1069	110
1996	Delbrel v. Doenges Bros. Ford, Inc.	913 P.2d 1318	106
1989	Schepp v. Hess· Concurrence†	770 P.2d 34	104
1984	Reherman v. Oklahoma Water Resources Board	679 P.2d 1296	104
1992	Mueggenborg v. Walling	836 P.2d 112	100
1985	Davis v. Davis· Dissent†	708 P.2d 1102	99
1989	Guinn v. Church of Christ of Collinsville· Concurrence†	775 P.2d 766	93
1999	Fent v. Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority· Dissent†	1999 OK 64	92

Showing the 15 most-cited of 377 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 Alma Wilson on?: Alma Wilson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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17 years 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).