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 1985 / Served to 2012

Carol M. Hansen

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Carol M. Hansen was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2012 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hansen authored 518 published opinions for the court (1985–2011), plus 47 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Mitchell v. Griffin Television, L.L.C. (31 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. 320 of these were attributed to Hansen 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
2002	Mitchell v. Griffin Television, L.L.C.	2002 OK CIV APP 115	31
2000	Gabler v. Holder and Smith, Inc.	2000 OK CIV APP 107	28
1997	Calhoun v. City of Durant· Concurrence†	1998 OK CIV APP 152	25
1987	Seely v. Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission· Concurrence†	743 P.2d 685	25
1998	Delong v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Department of Public Safety· Dissent†	1998 OK CIV APP 32	22
1992	Orm v. State†	838 P.2d 38	22
2011	BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. v. White	2011 OK CIV APP 35	21
2010	Robinson v. Sunshine Homes, Inc.†	291 P.3d 628	21
1995	Union Texas Petroleum Corp. v. Jackson	909 P.2d 131	21
1991	R.J.B. Gas Pipeline Co. v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co.	813 P.2d 14	21
1991	RJB Gas Pipeline Co. v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co.	813 P.2d 1	20
1987	Pelican Production Corp. v. Wishbone Oil & Gas, Inc.	746 P.2d 209	20
2001	Boyle Services, Inc. v. Dewberry Design Group, Inc.	2001 OK CIV APP 63	19
1996	Copeland v. Admiral Pest Control Co.· Dissent†	933 P.2d 937	19
1989	Massongill v. McDevitt	828 P.2d 438	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 584 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 Carol M. Hansen on?: Carol M. Hansen was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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26 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).