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 1972 / Served to 1977

Charles Fred Bliss Jr.

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Charles Fred Bliss Jr. was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1977
Tenure: 1972–1977 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bliss authored 523 published opinions for the court (1972–1977), plus 2 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: King v. State (118 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. 241 of these were attributed to Bliss 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
1976	King v. State	553 P.2d 529	118
1973	Kitchens v. State	513 P.2d 1300	105
1974	Jones v. State	527 P.2d 169	62
1977	Atnip v. State	564 P.2d 660	58
1976	Johnson v. State	556 P.2d 1285	57
1975	Morgan v. State	536 P.2d 952	44
1976	Parker v. State	556 P.2d 1298	43
1973	Stidham v. State	507 P.2d 1312	43
1974	Buchanan v. State	523 P.2d 1134	41
1973	Wright v. State	505 P.2d 507	41
1973	Farrar v. State	505 P.2d 1355	39
1977	Dennis v. State	561 P.2d 88	38
1976	Calhoon v. State	548 P.2d 1037	38
1976	Satterlee v. State	549 P.2d 104	36
1974	Castleberry v. State	522 P.2d 257	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 536 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 Fred Bliss Jr. on?: Charles Fred Bliss Jr. was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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5 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).