How do judges of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1999 / Served to 2004

Daniel J. Boudreau

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Daniel J. Boudreau was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1999–2004 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Boudreau authored 69 published opinions for the court (1999–2004), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Fanning v. Brown (295 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. 26 of these were attributed to Boudreau 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
2004	Fanning v. Brown	2004 OK 7	295
2000	Patterson v. Beall	2000 OK 92	148
2004	Wathor v. Mutual Assurance Administrators, Inc.	2004 OK 2	119
2002	Computer Publications, Inc. v. Welton	2002 OK 50	117
2003	Evers v. FSF Overlake Associates	2003 OK 53	83
2003	Merritt v. Merritt· Concurrence†	2003 OK 68	79
2004	American Economy Insurance Co. v. Bogdahn	2004 OK 9	75
2003	Humphries v. Lewis	2003 OK 12	73
2000	Rivas v. Parkland Manor	2000 OK 68	72
2002	Cranfill v. Aetna Life Insurance Co.	2002 OK 26	67
2002	First National Bank in Durant v. Honey Creek Entertainment Corp.	2002 OK 11	63
2002	Myers v. Lashley· Concurrence†	2002 OK 14	62
2001	Barker v. State Insurance Fund	2001 OK 94	61
2001	Clinton v. State Ex Rel. Logan County Election Board	2001 OK 52	57
2002	Redcorn v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.· Dissent†	2002 OK 15	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 85 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 Supreme Court of Oklahoma reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Daniel J. Boudreau on?: Daniel J. Boudreau was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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5 years on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).