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 2005 / Active

David B. Lewis

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

David B. Lewis is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1958 · age 68
Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lewis authored 47 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 5 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Warner v. State (112 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. 52 of these were attributed to Lewis 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
2006	Warner v. State· Concurrence†	2006 OK CR 40	112
2006	Stouffer v. State	2006 OK CR 46	101
2011	Davis v. State· Concurrence†	268 P.3d 86	86
2008	Williams v. State	2008 OK CR 19	70
2018	LEE v. STATE· Concurrence†	2018 OK CR 14	69
2007	Glossip v. State	2007 OK CR 12	68
2007	Hancock v. State	2007 OK CR 9	62
2007	Malone v. State· Concurrence†	2007 OK CR 34	59
2007	Andrew v. State	2007 OK CR 23	56
2005	McHam v. State· Dissent†	2005 OK CR 28	52
2009	Sanchez v. State	2009 OK CR 31	51
2018	BRAMLETT v. STATE· Concurrence†	2018 OK CR 19	47
2007	Ball v. State	2007 OK CR 42	47
2013	Miller v. State· Concurrence†	313 P.3d 934	45
2016	MARTINEZ v. STATE†	2016 OK CR 3	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 79 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 is David B. Lewis on?: David B. Lewis is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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21 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).