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 2011 / Active

Noma Gurich

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Noma Gurich is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

Indiana State University
University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Gurich authored 44 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 18 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Starkey v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections (125 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. 74 of these were attributed to Gurich 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
2013	Starkey v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections· Concurrence†	305 P.3d 1004	125
2012	Williams Companies v. Dunkelgod· Concurrence†	295 P.3d 1107	105
2016	IN RE INITIATIVE PETITION NO. 409, STATE QUESTION NO. 785†	2016 OK 51	88
2012	STATE EX REL. OKLAHOMA BAR ASS'N v. Conrady	2012 OK 29	86
2017	OSAGE NATION v. BD. OF COMMISSIONERS OF OSAGE COUNTY and OSAGE NATION v. OSAGE COUNTY BD. OF ADJUSTMENT· Concurrence†	2017 OK 34	83
2013	Douglas v. Cox Retirement Properties, Inc.†	302 P.3d 789	74
2015	STATE ex rel. OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION v. MANSFIELD†	2015 OK 22	69
2016	MAXWELL v. SPRINT PCS†	2016 OK 41	68
2014	WOOD v. MERCEDES-BENZ OF OKLAHOMA CITY†	2014 OK 68	68
2013	Howard v. Zimmer, Inc.· Dissent†	299 P.3d 463	67
2013	Sheffer v. Carolina Forge Co.†	306 P.3d 544	61
2012	Harmon v. Cradduck†	286 P.3d 643	57
2014	STATE ex rel.OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION v. HART†	2014 OK 96	54
2012	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Heath· Dissent†	280 P.3d 328	51
2015	State ex rel. Department of Human Services v. Jones†	373 P.3d 1022	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 77 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 is Noma Gurich on?: Noma Gurich is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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15 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).