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

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

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1991 / Served to 2004

Carl B. Jones

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Carl B. Jones was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2004 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 1,069 published opinions for the court (1940–2004), plus 15 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Sadler v. State (83 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. 161 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1947	Sadler v. State	179 P.2d 479	83
1999	Swickey v. Silvey Companies	1999 OK CIV APP 48	81
1940	Ex Parte Meadows	106 P.2d 139	66
1948	Lowrey v. State· Dissent	197 P.2d 637	58
1951	Hathcox v. State	230 P.2d 927	49
1941	Herren v. State	115 P.2d 258	46
1946	Bingham v. State	165 P.2d 646	45
1941	Ex Parte Clyde Meadows	112 P.2d 419	43
1941	Pressley v. State	112 P.2d 809	42
1951	Williams v. State	226 P.2d 989	41
1948	Osborn v. State	194 P.2d 176	38
1941	Nemecek v. State	114 P.2d 492	36
1940	Ex Parte Robnett	101 P.2d 645	36
1945	Little v. State	154 P.2d 772	34
1943	Bean v. State	138 P.2d 563	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,092 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 Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Carl B. Jones on?: Carl B. Jones was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

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