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 1993 / Served to 2004

Rita M. Strubhar

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Rita M. Strubhar was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1993–2004 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

Oklahoma City University

Judicial Record

In our data, Strubhar authored 89 published opinions for the court (1994–2004), plus 13 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Romano v. State (159 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. 64 of these were attributed to Strubhar 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
1995	Romano v. State	909 P.2d 92	159
1994	Malone v. State	876 P.2d 707	141
2000	Welch v. State	2000 OK CR 8	136
1999	Shrum v. State	1999 OK CR 41	123
1997	Ledbetter v. State· Concurrence†	933 P.2d 880	111
1997	Douglas v. State	1997 OK CR 79	102
1995	Duckett v. State· Concurrence†	919 P.2d 7	100
2001	Black v. State	2001 OK CR 5	99
1995	Spears v. State	900 P.2d 431	99
2000	Gilson v. State· Concurrence†	2000 OK CR 14	96
1994	Freeman v. State	876 P.2d 283	92
2004	Easlick v. State· Dissent†	2004 OK CR 21	91
1996	Smith v. State	932 P.2d 521	89
2002	Lockett v. State	2002 OK CR 30	84
1999	Washington v. State†	989 P.2d 960	84

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 Rita M. Strubhar on?: Rita M. Strubhar was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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11 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).