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 2017 / Active

Scott Rowland

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Scott Rowland is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rowland authored 9 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: BRAMLETT v. STATE (47 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. 12 of these were attributed to Rowland 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	BRAMLETT v. STATE†	2018 OK CR 19	47
2019	TAFOLLA v. STATE†	446 P.3d 1248	46
2018	MASON v. STATE†	2018 OK CR 37	33
2018	MITCHELL v. STATE†	2018 OK CR 24	29
2019	CHADWELL v. STATE†	446 P.3d 1244	18
2019	THOMPSON v. STATE†	438 P.3d 373	18
2019	STEWART v. STATE†	442 P.3d 158	14
2018	McNEELY v. STATE· Concurrence†	2018 OK CR 18	13
2018	THOMPSON v. STATE· Concurrence†	2018 OK CR 5	6
2018	STATE v. COOPER· Concurrence†	2018 OK CR 40	5
2018	G.W. v. State†	433 P.3d 1283	2
2019	STATE v. COUSAN†	447 P.3d 481	1

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Scott Rowland on?: Scott Rowland is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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9 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).