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 2015 / Active

Robert L. Hudson

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Robert L. Hudson is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hudson authored 15 published opinions for the court (2015–2018), plus 2 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: TRYON v. STATE (53 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. 23 of these were attributed to Hudson 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	TRYON v. STATE†	2018 OK CR 20	53
2016	PULLEN v. STATE†	2016 OK CR 18	48
2018	LAMAR v. STATE†	2018 OK CR 8	38
2017	BAIRD v. STATE†	400 P.3d 875	37
2016	LUNA v. STATE· Concurrence†	2016 OK CR 27	36
2016	JACKSON v. STATE†	2016 OK CR 5	31
2015	BOSSE v. STATE· Concurrence†	2015 OK CR 14	27
2018	STATE v. STRAWN†	2018 OK CR 2	21
2017	BARNES v. STATE†	2017 OK CR 26	20
2015	GERHART v. STATE· Concurrence†	2015 OK CR 12	18
2017	STATE v. GILCHRIST†	2017 OK CR 25	16
2016	TOLLETT v. STATE†	2016 OK CR 15	15
2016	FULGHAM v. STATE†	2016 OK CR 30	14
2018	McNEELY v. STATE†	2018 OK CR 18	13
2016	STATE v. TUBBY· Concurrence†	2016 OK CR 17	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 23 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 is Robert L. Hudson on?: Robert L. Hudson is 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 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).