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 1989 / Former Judge

Charles A. Johnson

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Charles A. Johnson was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1989 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 154 published opinions for the court (1989–2004), plus 3 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: Mayes v. State (194 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. 97 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1994	Mayes v. State· Concurrence†	887 P.2d 1288	194
1996	Parker v. State	917 P.2d 980	149
2000	Young v. State	2000 OK CR 17	124
1995	Taylor v. State· Concurrence†	889 P.2d 319	124
1991	Sellers v. State	809 P.2d 676	116
1991	Boltz v. State	806 P.2d 1117	114
1995	Cheney v. State· Concurrence†	909 P.2d 74	109
1995	Duckett v. State	919 P.2d 7	100
1993	Salazar v. State· Concurrence†	852 P.2d 729	94
2004	Dodd v. State†	2004 OK CR 31	93
1994	Ellis v. State	867 P.2d 1289	86
1999	Short v. State· Concurrence†	1999 OK CR 15	85
1995	Cannon v. State· Concurrence†	904 P.2d 89	82
1995	Perry v. State· Concurrence†	893 P.2d 521	81
1994	McCracken v. State	887 P.2d 323	78

Showing the 15 most-cited of 203 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 Charles A. Johnson on?: Charles A. Johnson was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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36 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).