How do judges of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1955 / Served to 1973

Floyd L. Jackson

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Floyd L. Jackson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–1974
Tenure: 1955–1973 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Jackson authored 437 published opinions for the court (1955–1973), plus 31 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. State Election Board of the Oklahoma (77 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. 173 of these were attributed to Jackson 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
1962	Brown v. State Election Board of the Oklahoma	369 P.2d 140	77
1964	H. J. Jeffries Truck Line v. Grisham	397 P.2d 637	55
1964	Gordon v. Followell	391 P.2d 242	55
1965	Porter v. Norton-Stuart Pontiac-Cadillac of Enid	405 P.2d 109	50
1962	Fawcett Publications, Inc. v. Morris	377 P.2d 42	49
1970	Hines v. Clendenning	465 P.2d 460	48
1960	Woolfolk v. Semrod	351 P.2d 742	47
1972	Gulf Oil Company v. Woodson	505 P.2d 484	44
1965	Henryetta Construction Co. v. Harris	408 P.2d 522	43
1956	Novak v. McAlister	301 P.2d 234	43
1972	R. J. Edwards, Inc. v. Hert· Concurrence†	504 P.2d 407	42
1971	Central Oklahoma Freight Lines, Inc. v. Corporation Commission	484 P.2d 877	39
1960	Downs v. Longfellow Corporation	351 P.2d 999	39
1964	Tucker v. Tucker	395 P.2d 67	36
1962	Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Company	382 P.2d 109	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 493 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 Supreme Court of Oklahoma reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Floyd L. Jackson on?: Floyd L. Jackson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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