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 1996 / Active

Kenneth L. Buettner

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Kenneth L. Buettner is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, serving since 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1996 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Buettner authored 322 published opinions for the court (1996–2017), plus 19 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Towe, Hester & Erwin, Inc. v. Kansas City Fire & Marine Insurance Co. (27 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. 193 of these were attributed to Buettner 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	Towe, Hester & Erwin, Inc. v. Kansas City Fire & Marine Insurance Co.	947 P.2d 594	27
2006	Bartlett v. Bartlett	2006 OK CIV APP 112	26
1997	Calhoun v. City of Durant	1998 OK CIV APP 152	25
2010	Robinson v. Sunshine Homes, Inc.· Concurrence†	291 P.3d 628	21
1998	Mirzaie v. Smith Cogeneration, Inc.	1998 OK CIV APP 123	20
2001	Boyle Services, Inc. v. Dewberry Design Group, Inc.· Concurrence†	2001 OK CIV APP 63	19
1996	Copeland v. Admiral Pest Control Co.	933 P.2d 937	19
2010	AMERICAN BANK OF OKLAHOMA v. Wagoner	2011 OK CIV APP 76	17
1996	Anderson v. Oklahoma Temporary Services, Inc.	925 P.2d 574	17
2000	Lapkin v. Garland Bloodworth, Inc.	2001 OK CIV APP 29	16
1998	Alford v. Garzone	1998 OK CIV APP 105	16
2003	Celestica Inc. v. Hines	2004 OK CIV APP 22	15
2013	L.E. Jones Drilling Co. v. Hodge· Dissent†	315 P.3d 1025	14
2011	Honeywell v. Gada Builders, Inc.†	271 P.3d 88	14
2000	Mason v. State Ex Rel. Board of Regents	2001 OK CIV APP 33	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 356 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 is Kenneth L. Buettner on?: Kenneth L. Buettner is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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30 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).