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 1986 / Served to 2001

James P. Garrett

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

James P. Garrett was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2001 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Garrett authored 307 published opinions for the court (1987–2001), plus 20 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Hoedebeck v. Hoedebeck (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. 223 of these were attributed to Garrett 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
1997	Hoedebeck v. Hoedebeck	1997 OK CIV APP 69	23
1992	Woolf v. Universal Fidelity Life Insurance Co.	849 P.2d 1093	22
1992	Alsobrook v. National Travelers Life Insurance Co.	852 P.2d 768	17
1992	Irwin v. SWO Acquisition Corp.	830 P.2d 587	17
1990	McMeakin v. Roofing & Sheet Metal Supply Co. of Tulsa	807 P.2d 288	16
1992	Grayson v. State Ex Rel. Children's Hospital of Oklahoma	838 P.2d 546	15
1992	Moore v. Sneed†	839 P.2d 682	15
1991	Guyer v. Hugo Publishing Co.	830 P.2d 1393	15
2000	Williams v. State Ex Rel. Department of Transportation· Concurrence†	2000 OK CIV APP 19	14
1993	Resolution Trust Corp. v. Sudderth†	854 P.2d 375	13
1992	Wilson v. Stenwall	868 P.2d 1317	13
1996	Lang v. Landeros	918 P.2d 404	12
1987	Ellison v. An-Son Corp.	751 P.2d 1102	12
1992	Kiamichi Electric Cooperative v. Underwood	842 P.2d 358	11
1989	Stucky v. Long	783 P.2d 500	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 346 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 was James P. Garrett on?: James P. Garrett was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).