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 1940 / Served to 1957

Dick Sterling Jones

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Dick Sterling Jones was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1996
Tenure: 1940–1957 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 167 published opinions for the court (1940–1957), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Berryman v. State (31 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. 174 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1955	Berryman v. State†	283 P.2d 558	31
1945	Salisbury v. State†	80 Okla. Crim. 13	25
1953	Chandler v. State†	255 P.2d 299	21
1952	Kizer v. State†	249 P.2d 132	20
1953	Perry v. Waters†	256 P.2d 1119	18
1953	Kidd v. State· Dissent†	266 P.2d 992	15
1955	Davison v. State· Concurrence†	281 P.2d 196	13
1950	Ex Parte Grimes†	221 P.2d 679	13
1955	De Armond v. State· Dissent†	285 P.2d 236	12
1943	White v. State†	76 Okla. Crim. 147	12
1940	Snider v. State†	71 Okla. Crim. 98	12
1955	In Re the Habeas Corpus of York†	283 P.2d 567	11
1954	McCormick v. State· Separate†	279 P.2d 359	10
1950	Ex Parte Arnett†	225 P.2d 381	10
1952	Roberts v. State†	245 P.2d 759	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 174 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 Dick Sterling Jones on?: Dick Sterling Jones was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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17 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).