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 1984 / Served to 1992

Ed Parks Jr.

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Ed Parks Jr. was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–1993
Tenure: 1984–1992 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Parks authored 402 published opinions for the court (1961–1992), plus 69 dissents and 209 concurrences. Most cited: Fox v. State (211 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. 416 of these were attributed to Parks 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
1989	Fox v. State· Concurrence†	779 P.2d 562	211
1986	Walker v. State	723 P.2d 273	151
1986	VanWoundenberg v. State· Concurrence†	720 P.2d 328	148
1989	Jones v. State	772 P.2d 922	139
1991	Williamson v. State· Concurrence†	812 P.2d 384	134
1986	Foster v. State· Concurrence†	714 P.2d 1031	133
1987	Fisher v. State	736 P.2d 1003	124
1992	Crawford v. State· Dissent†	840 P.2d 627	120
1991	Battenfield v. State	816 P.2d 555	118
1988	Nguyen v. State· Concurrence†	769 P.2d 167	115
1991	Boltz v. State· Concurrence†	806 P.2d 1117	114
1985	Green v. State	713 P.2d 1032	113
1988	Munson v. State	758 P.2d 324	109
1991	Berget v. State· Concurrence†	824 P.2d 364	108
1987	Castro v. State	745 P.2d 394	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 681 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 Ed Parks Jr. on?: Ed Parks Jr. was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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8 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).