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 2018 / Active

Richard Darby

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Richard Darby is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Darby authored 2 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Dougherty v. State (In re J.L.O.) (43 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. 5 of these were attributed to Darby 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
2018	Dougherty v. State (In re J.L.O.)†	428 P.3d 881	43
2018	MARTIN v. PHILLIPS· Concurrence†	422 P.3d 143	23
2018	Martinez-Mendoza v. State (In re C.M.)†	432 P.3d 763	16
2019	SCHNEDLER v. LEE· Dissent†	445 P.3d 238	14
2019	Okla. Coal. for Reprod. Justice v. Cline· Dissent†	441 P.3d 1145	7

Showing the 5 most-cited of 5 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 Richard Darby on?: Richard Darby is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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8 years on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).