How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1982 / Served to 2010

Ronald J. Stubblefield

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Ronald J. Stubblefield was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–2010 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stubblefield authored 102 published opinions for the court (1983–2005), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Spirgis v. Circle K Stores, Inc. (164 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. 57 of these were attributed to Stubblefield 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
1987	Spirgis v. Circle K Stores, Inc.	743 P.2d 682	164
1996	Fritts v. McKinne	934 P.2d 371	26
1995	Northland Insurance Co. v. Kellogg	897 P.2d 1161	25
1985	Woods Petroleum Corp. v. Delhi Gas Pipeline Corp.	700 P.2d 1023	23
2000	Conatzer v. American Mercury Ins. Co., Inc.	2000 OK CIV APP 141	15
1999	In Re Adoption of CRB	1999 OK CIV APP 104	15
1987	Mehojah v. Moore	744 P.2d 222	15
2001	King v. Modern Music Co.· Dissent†	2001 OK CIV APP 126	14
1984	Kissinger v. Kissinger· Dissent†	692 P.2d 71	14
2000	Loewen Group Acquisition Corp. v. Matthews	2000 OK CIV APP 109	12
1998	Fleming Companies, Inc. v. Tru Discount Foods	1999 OK CIV APP 18	12
1986	Brown v. City of Oklahoma City· Dissent†	721 P.2d 1346	12
1983	BD. OF EDUCATION, WOODWARD PUB. SCHOOLS v. Hensley	665 P.2d 327	12
1998	Barre v. TCIM Services, Inc.	1998 OK CIV APP 179	11
1999	In Re Estate of Geller	1999 OK CIV APP 45	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Ronald J. Stubblefield on?: Ronald J. Stubblefield was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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