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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 1998 / Active

Norma Mcgee Ogle

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Norma Mcgee Ogle is a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ogle authored 1,472 published opinions for the court (1994–2022). Most cited: State v. Coulter (139 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. 2 of these were attributed to Ogle 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
2001	State v. Coulter	67 S.W.3d 3	139
2000	State v. Smith†	48 S.W.3d 159	70
2000	State v. Ellis	89 S.W.3d 584	49
1999	State v. Carroll	36 S.W.3d 854	49
1999	Wilcoxson v. State	22 S.W.3d 289	35
2001	In Re Paul's Bonding Co., Inc.	62 S.W.3d 187	34
2000	State v. McCrary	45 S.W.3d 36	26
2005	State v. Hudgins	188 S.W.3d 663	25
2002	In Re Sanford & Sons Bail Bonds, Inc.	96 S.W.3d 199	24
2011	State of Tennessee v. Robert Charles Brown	373 S.W.3d 565	23
2006	State v. Robinson	239 S.W.3d 211	19
2000	State v. Maraschiello	88 S.W.3d 586	16
2004	Johnson v. State	145 S.W.3d 97	15
2003	State v. Clayton	131 S.W.3d 475	12
2008	State v. Troutman	327 S.W.3d 717	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,472 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 Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Norma Mcgee Ogle on?: Norma Mcgee Ogle is a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

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