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 1974 / Served to 1990

Lester A. Reynolds

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Lester A. Reynolds was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1990 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reynolds authored 91 published opinions for the court (1975–1989), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Amoco Production Co. v. Corporation Commission (40 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. 37 of these were attributed to Reynolds 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
1986	Amoco Production Co. v. Corporation Commission	751 P.2d 203	40
1984	Marquette v. Marquette	686 P.2d 990	32
1980	Oklahoma Journal Publishing Co. v. City of Oklahoma City	620 P.2d 452	31
1982	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Emery	645 P.2d 1048	24
1984	Tynes v. Uniroyal Tire Co.	679 P.2d 1310	21
1976	Bennett v. City National Bank and Trust Company· Dissent†	549 P.2d 393	21
1975	Black v. Littleton	532 P.2d 486	19
1980	Dale v. City of Yukon	618 P.2d 954	17
1977	Moore v. Target Stores, Inc.	571 P.2d 1236	16
1976	Beren v. Harper Oil Company	546 P.2d 1356	15
1975	Williams v. Braum Ice Cream Stores, Inc.	534 P.2d 700	13
1978	Smith v. Smith	579 P.2d 841	12
1976	Van Wart v. Cook	557 P.2d 1161	12
1989	Burris v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety	785 P.2d 332	10
1979	Murrell v. Goertz	597 P.2d 1223	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 Lester A. Reynolds on?: Lester A. Reynolds was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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16 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).