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 1971 / Served to 1971

Robert D. Simms

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Robert D. Simms was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1926–2008
Tenure: 1971–1971

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Simms authored 33 published opinions for the court (1971–1972), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Logan v. State (36 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. 3 of these were attributed to Simms 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
1972	Logan v. State	493 P.2d 842	36
1972	Fields v. State	501 P.2d 1390	27
1972	Schorr v. State	499 P.2d 450	26
1972	State Ex Rel. Fallis v. Caldwell	498 P.2d 426	25
1972	Templer v. State	494 P.2d 667	22
1972	Freshour v. Turner	496 P.2d 389	21
1972	State Ex Rel. Fallis v. Truesdell	493 P.2d 1134	21
1972	Callins v. State	500 P.2d 1333	16
1972	Hill v. State	500 P.2d 1080	15
1972	Branch v. Mills	500 P.2d 590	13
1972	Ruhm v. State	496 P.2d 809	13
1972	Shattuck v. Grider	493 P.2d 829	12
1972	Ellison v. State	493 P.2d 837	12
1972	Carlile v. State	493 P.2d 449	12
1972	Chandler v. State	501 P.2d 512	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 34 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 Robert D. Simms on?: Robert D. Simms was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1971. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).