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 1951 / Served to 1953

George Allen Bingaman

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

George Allen Bingaman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1991
Tenure: 1951–1953 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bingaman authored 118 published opinions for the court (1951–1953), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Manos v. Leche (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. 37 of these were attributed to Bingaman 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
1951	Manos v. Leche	236 P.2d 693	23
1952	Johnson v. Butler	245 P.2d 720	19
1951	National Valve & Mfg. Co. v. Wright	240 P.2d 766	17
1951	Dairy Queen of Oklahoma, Inc. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission	238 P.2d 800	17
1952	Continental Oil Co. v. Williams	250 P.2d 439	16
1952	Pease v. Dolezal	246 P.2d 757	15
1952	Dieffenbach v. McIntyre	254 P.2d 346	14
1952	Fabbro v. Reese	246 P.2d 324	14
1952	Widger v. Union Oil Co. of Oklahoma	239 P.2d 789	14
1952	Garrison v. Bonham	251 P.2d 790	13
1952	Lewis v. Sisney	239 P.2d 787	13
1951	McAlester Corporation v. Wheeler	239 P.2d 409	13
1952	New York Life Ins. Co. v. Wise	251 P.2d 1058	12
1952	Jones v. City of Oklahoma City	250 P.2d 17	12
1952	Summers v. Williams	242 P.2d 139	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 George Allen Bingaman on?: George Allen Bingaman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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2 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).