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 2010 / Former Judge

Clancy Smith

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Clancy Smith was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 40 published opinions for the court (2010–2017), plus 2 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Logan v. State (70 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. 39 of these were attributed to Smith 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
2013	Logan v. State†	293 P.3d 969	70
2011	Robinson v. State	2011 OK CR 15	67
2017	BOSSE v. STATE†	400 P.3d 834	50
2016	MITCHELL v. STATE†	2016 OK CR 21	47
2013	Miller v. State†	313 P.3d 934	45
2017	DUCLOS v. STATE· Concurrence†	2017 OK CR 8	39
2012	State ex rel. Mashburn v. Stice· Concurrence†	288 P.3d 247	39
2011	Coddington v. State	2011 OK CR 17	38
2014	STATE v. IVEN†	2014 OK CR 8	36
2016	REED v. STATE· Concurrence†	2016 OK CR 10	32
2015	BOSSE v. STATE†	2015 OK CR 14	27
2012	Mathis v. State†	271 P.3d 67	27
2014	STATE v. FARTHING†	2014 OK CR 4	24
2011	Dawkins v. State	2011 OK CR 1	24
2014	ARGANBRIGHT v. STATE· Concurrence†	2014 OK CR 5	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 Clancy Smith on?: Clancy Smith was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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15 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).