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 2007 / Former Justice

John F. Reif

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

John F. Reif was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

University of Tulsa
University of Tulsa

Judicial Record

In our data, Reif authored 64 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 14 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: SMITH v. CITY OF STILLWATER (121 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. 61 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
2014	SMITH v. CITY OF STILLWATER· Concurrence†	2014 OK 42	121
2018	ODOM v. PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO.· Dissent†	2018 OK 23	114
2010	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Department of Public Safety v. Gurich· Dissent†	2010 OK 56	60
2013	State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Kleinsmith†	297 P.3d 1248	49
2011	Estrada v. PORT CITY PROPERTIES, INC.· Concurrence†	2011 OK 30	46
2010	Estate of Crowell Ex Rel. Boen v. Board of County Commissioners	2010 OK 5	45
2012	State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Haave†	290 P.3d 747	42
2015	BALL v. MULTIPLE INJURY TRUST FUND· Dissent†	2015 OK 64	41
2010	Eagle Bluff, L.L.C. v. Taylor	2010 OK 47	37
2009	Shephard v. Compsource Oklahoma†	2009 OK 25	37
2011	Durham v. McDonald's Restaurants of Oklahoma, Inc.	2011 OK 45	36
2009	Cossey v. Cherokee Nation Enterprises, LLC· Dissent†	2009 OK 6	35
2011	City of Tulsa v. Bank of Oklahoma, N.A.· Dissent†	280 P.3d 314	30
2013	Coates v. Fallin· Concurrence†	316 P.3d 924	29
2013	Troxell v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services†	318 P.3d 206	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 86 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 John F. Reif on?: John F. Reif 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).