How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

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

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 2005 / Served to 2011

Doug Gabbard II

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Doug Gabbard II was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2011 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Gabbard authored 97 published opinions for the court (2005–2011), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Marriage of King v. King (25 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. 32 of these were attributed to Gabbard 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
2009	Marriage of King v. King	2009 OK CIV APP 49	25
2008	Klopfenstein v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services	2008 OK CIV APP 16	23
2006	Been v. Been	2007 OK CIV APP 31	16
2008	Hastings v. Kelley	2008 OK CIV APP 36	15
2007	Abibo v. SUNSET MORTG. CO., LP	2007 OK CIV APP 17	15
2006	Gambill v. Gambill· Concurrence†	2006 OK CIV APP 73	15
2008	Marriage of Kilpatrick v. Kilpatrick	2008 OK CIV APP 94	14
2007	Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality v. Department of Central Services	2008 OK CIV APP 30	14
2006	Bailey v. Farmers Insurance Co.†	137 P.3d 1260	14
2007	Brazil v. Brazil	2007 OK CIV APP 108	11
2009	Johnson v. Suttles	2009 OK CIV APP 89	10
2009	Andres v. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.	2009 OK CIV APP 97	10
2008	Clay v. CHOCTAW NATION CARE CENTER, LLC	2009 OK CIV APP 35	9
2009	Houck v. Farmers Insurance Co.†	229 P.3d 551	8
2009	Marriage of Cooper v. Cooper	2009 OK CIV APP 73	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Doug Gabbard II on?: Doug Gabbard II was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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