How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

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

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1936 / Served to 1949

Bert B. Barefoot

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Bert B. Barefoot was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1936–1949 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barefoot authored 606 published opinions for the court (1937–1949), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Lyons v. State (41 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. 617 of these were attributed to Barefoot 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
1943	Lyons v. State†	140 P.2d 248	41
1940	Nott v. State†	107 P.2d 366	38
1938	Luellen v. State†	81 P.2d 323	34
1944	Smith v. State†	152 P.2d 279	33
1938	Morse v. State†	77 P.2d 757	33
1947	Hughes v. State†	184 P.2d 625	32
1941	Ex Parte Gilbert†	111 P.2d 205	30
1937	Adams v. State†	70 P.2d 821	29
1937	Cooper v. State†	67 P.2d 981	28
1937	Williams v. State†	68 P.2d 530	27
1945	Bennett v. District Court of Tulsa Co.†	162 P.2d 561	26
1939	Jackson v. State†	94 P.2d 851	26
1946	Smith v. State†	175 P.2d 348	25
1939	Anderson v. State†	91 P.2d 794	25
1943	Daves v. State†	141 P.2d 603	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 617 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 Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Bert B. Barefoot on?: Bert B. Barefoot was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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