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 1984 / Served to 2007

John F. Reif

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

John F. Reif was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–2007 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Reif authored 177 published opinions for the court (1984–2007), plus 2 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Rotan v. Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, Inc. (70 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. 119 of these were attributed to Reif 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
2003	Rotan v. Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, Inc.†	83 P.3d 894	70
1994	Weeks v. Cessna Aircraft Co.· Concurrence†	895 P.2d 731	57
1999	Michael C. v. State†	993 P.2d 137	34
2004	Bankers Trust Co. v. Brown	2005 OK CIV APP 1	29
1998	State v. McMahon	1998 OK CIV APP 103	21
2002	In Re Adoption of IDG	2002 OK CIV APP 22	18
2004	Tanique, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs	2004 OK CIV APP 73	17
1996	Nazworth v. Nazworth	931 P.2d 86	17
2000	Harrington v. Certified Systems, Inc.	2001 OK CIV APP 53	13
1994	State ex rel. McGehee v. 1989 Ford F-150 Pickup, 1993 Texas License No. DYI-252, VIN No. 1FTHF36L7EKA09102†	888 P.2d 1036	13
1985	C & C Tile and Carpet Co., Inc. v. Aday	697 P.2d 175	13
2000	Tsotaddle v. Absentee Shawnee Housing Authority	2001 OK CIV APP 23	11
1996	Cooper v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh	921 P.2d 1297	11
1995	Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Carter	914 P.2d 677	11
2003	Nelson v. Nelson	2004 OK CIV APP 6	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 189 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 John F. Reif on?: John F. Reif was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).