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 1910 / Served to 1911

D A. Richardson

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

D A. Richardson was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1910. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1876 · age 150
Tenure: 1910–1911 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1910	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Richardson authored 30 published opinions for the court (1910–1911). Most cited: Hawkins v. United States (41 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. 30 of these were attributed to Richardson 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
1910	Hawkins v. United States†	108 P. 561	41
1911	James v. State†	112 P. 944	22
1910	Hill v. State†	109 P. 291	21
1910	Stack v. State†	109 P. 126	20
1910	Roberson v. United States†	4 Okla. Crim. 336	15
1910	Gray v. State†	111 P. 825	14
1910	In Re Fraley†	109 P. 295	13
1911	Billingsley v. State†	113 P. 241	12
1910	Lewis v. Russell, Judge†	111 P. 818	12
1910	In Re Bollin†	109 P. 288	11
1911	Tydings v. State†	112 P. 759	10
1910	Harris v. United States†	111 P. 982	9
1910	In Re James†	111 P. 947	9
1910	Bartell v. State†	111 P. 669	9
1910	In Re Fraley†	111 P. 662	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 30 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 D A. Richardson on?: D A. Richardson was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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1 year 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).