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 2002 / Active

E Bay Mitchell III

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

E Bay Mitchell III is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mitchell authored 158 published opinions for the court (2002–2018), plus 6 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Prince v. BF Ascher Company, Inc. (23 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. 104 of these were attributed to Mitchell 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	Prince v. BF Ascher Company, Inc.	2004 OK CIV APP 39	23
2016	Steidley v. Community Newspaper HoldIngs, Inc.†	383 P.3d 780	21
2012	State v. Albert†	280 P.3d 366	20
2002	London v. Farmers Ins. Co., Inc.	2003 OK CIV APP 10	18
2002	M.D.R. v. State†	50 P.3d 1160	18
2005	Hollis v. State ex rel. Department of Public Safety†	131 P.3d 145	17
2002	Brown v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.†	2002 OK CIV APP 107	16
2006	Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 142 v. City of Perkins†	146 P.3d 829	14
2007	Duty v. Duty	2007 OK CIV APP 43	13
2002	Brannon v. Munn	2003 OK CIV APP 33	13
2004	S.S. v. State†	90 P.3d 571	12
2013	Roulston v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety†	324 P.3d 1261	11
2010	WILLCO ENTERPRISES, LLC v. Woodruff	2010 OK CIV APP 18	11
2009	Capital One Bank, N.A. v. Parsons	2009 OK CIV APP 71	11
2009	Hinds v. Johnston	2009 OK CIV APP 54	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 172 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 is E Bay Mitchell III on?: E Bay Mitchell III is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).