How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1957 / Served to 1971

Kirksey McCord Nix

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Kirksey McCord Nix was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1979
Tenure: 1957–1971 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Nix authored 669 published opinions for the court (1957–1971), plus 30 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Jones v. State (183 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. 451 of these were attributed to Nix 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
1970	Jones v. State	468 P.2d 805	183
1971	Brown v. State	481 P.2d 475	92
1969	Williams v. State· Concurrence†	461 P.2d 997	83
1967	Shapard v. State· Concurrence†	437 P.2d 565	74
1957	Roulston v. State†	307 P.2d 861	70
1971	Jones v. State	481 P.2d 169	68
1962	Harris v. State	369 P.2d 187	59
1964	Born v. State	397 P.2d 924	50
1963	French v. State	377 P.2d 501	39
1960	Gillespie v. State	355 P.2d 451	39
1971	Hayes v. Municipal Court of Oklahoma City	487 P.2d 974	38
1965	Walters v. State	403 P.2d 267	38
1960	Townley v. State	355 P.2d 420	38
1966	Brewer v. State	414 P.2d 559	37
1957	Shirey v. State†	321 P.2d 981	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 712 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 Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Kirksey McCord Nix on?: Kirksey McCord Nix was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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14 years on the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).