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 1999 / Served to 2005

Stephen E. Lile

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Stephen E. Lile was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1999–2005 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus
University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Lile authored 27 published opinions for the court (1999–2005), plus 5 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Easlick v. State (91 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. 24 of these were attributed to Lile 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
2004	Easlick v. State	2004 OK CR 21	91
1999	Washington v. State· Concurrence†	989 P.2d 960	84
2001	Frederick v. State	2001 OK CR 34	80
2000	Fairchild v. State	1999 OK CR 49	72
1999	Alverson v. State· Concurrence†	1999 OK CR 21	71
2001	Pickens v. State· Concurrence†	2001 OK CR 3	60
2002	McElmurry v. State	2002 OK CR 40	56
1999	Ullery v. State· Concurrence†	1999 OK CR 36	54
2004	Primeaux v. State	2004 OK CR 16	52
2000	Myers v. State	2000 OK CR 25	51
1999	Davis v. State	1999 OK CR 48	51
2001	Warner v. State· Concurrence†	2001 OK CR 11	49
2003	Lambert v. State· Concurrence†	2003 OK CR 11	44
2000	Stemple v. State	2000 OK CR 4	42
2001	Glossip v. State· Concurrence†	2001 OK CR 21	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 48 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 Stephen E. Lile on?: Stephen E. Lile was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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