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 1970 / Served to 1992

Kenneth D. Bacon

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Kenneth D. Bacon was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1992 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bacon authored 52 published opinions for the court (1971–1992), plus 6 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Vacu-Maid, Inc. v. Covington (21 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. 41 of these were attributed to Bacon 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
1975	Vacu-Maid, Inc. v. Covington	530 P.2d 137	21
1972	Hibdon v. Casualty Corporation of America, Inc.	504 P.2d 878	18
1978	O'Dell v. DeJean's Packing Co., Inc.	585 P.2d 399	16
1979	Hughes v. Dunsmoor	594 P.2d 1231	14
1976	Security Bank & Trust Co. v. Federal National Bank & Trust Co. of Shawnee	554 P.2d 119	14
1986	Vance by and Through Vance v. Thomas· Concurrence†	716 P.2d 710	13
1975	Appeal of Tucker†	538 P.2d 626	13
1982	Pate v. MFA Mutual Insurance Co.	649 P.2d 809	11
1987	Security National Bank of Sapulpa v. Hufford· Dissent†	754 P.2d 561	9
1975	Glover v. Montgomery Ward and Company	536 P.2d 401	9
1986	Oakridge Invsestments, Inc. v. Southern Energy Homes, Inc.· Concurrence†	719 P.2d 848	8
1977	Buie v. Reynolds	571 P.2d 1230	8
1977	McKosky v. Town of Talihina	581 P.2d 482	7
1976	Gilles v. Norman Plumbing Supply Co. of Oklahoma City	549 P.2d 1351	7
1979	Kester v. Disan Engineering Corp.	591 P.2d 344	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Kenneth D. Bacon on?: Kenneth D. Bacon was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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22 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).