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 1961 / Served to 1989

Hez J. Bussey

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Hez J. Bussey was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1923–1994
Tenure: 1961–1989 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bussey authored 2,806 published opinions for the court (1961–1989), plus 66 dissents and 128 concurrences. Most cited: Burks v. State (375 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. 1,739 of these were attributed to Bussey 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
1979	Burks v. State· Dissent†	594 P.2d 771	375
1987	Stouffer v. State	742 P.2d 562	218
1989	Fox v. State	779 P.2d 562	211
1984	Robison v. State· Concurrence†	677 P.2d 1080	155
1986	VanWoundenberg v. State	720 P.2d 328	148
1986	Foster v. State	714 P.2d 1031	133
1986	Ross v. State	717 P.2d 117	126
1980	Irvin v. State· Dissent†	617 P.2d 588	123
1983	Boutwell v. State· Concurrence†	659 P.2d 322	119
1983	Johnson v. State· Concurrence†	665 P.2d 815	118
1988	Nguyen v. State	769 P.2d 167	115
1987	Johnson v. State	731 P.2d 993	113
1985	Green v. State· Concurrence†	713 P.2d 1032	113
1985	Brogie v. State	695 P.2d 538	111
1982	Brewer v. State	650 P.2d 54	108

Showing the 15 most-cited of 3,005 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 Hez J. Bussey on?: Hez J. Bussey was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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28 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).