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 1967 / Served to 1972

Rooney McInerney

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Rooney McInerney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–1978
Tenure: 1967–1972 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McInerney authored 107 published opinions for the court (1967–1972), plus 12 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Flick v. Crouch (129 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. 48 of these were attributed to McInerney 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
1967	Flick v. Crouch	434 P.2d 256	129
1968	Bomford v. Socony Mobil Oil Co.	440 P.2d 713	120
1969	Oklahoma Water Resources Board v. Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District	464 P.2d 748	72
1967	Buck v. Del City Apartments, Inc.	431 P.2d 360	54
1968	State Ex Rel. Nesbitt v. District Court of Mayes County	440 P.2d 700	51
1971	Chesmore v. Chesmore	484 P.2d 516	49
1967	Jack Healey Linen Service Co. v. Travis	434 P.2d 924	44
1969	Matchen v. McGahey	455 P.2d 52	38
1967	Coursey v. Fairchild	436 P.2d 35	36
1972	Oklahoma Brick Corporation v. McCall	497 P.2d 215	35
1971	Panhandle Cooperative Royalty Co. v. Cunningham	495 P.2d 108	32
1967	B. K. Sweeney Co. v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co. Ex Rel. Sringfield Insurance Co.	429 P.2d 759	31
1968	Wooten v. Hall	442 P.2d 334	30
1967	Lancaster v. State Ex Rel. Harrod	426 P.2d 714	25
1970	Boice v. State· Concurrence†	473 P.2d 241	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 127 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 was Rooney McInerney on?: Rooney McInerney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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