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 2004 / Former Justice

Steven W. Taylor

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Steven W. Taylor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 2004 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 95 published opinions for the court (2004–2016), plus 69 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Badillo v. Mid Century Insurance Co. (198 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. 133 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
2005	Badillo v. Mid Century Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	2005 OK 48	198
2007	Lowery v. Echostar Satellite Corp.	2007 OK 38	164
2006	Reeds v. Walker· Dissent†	2006 OK 43	155
2009	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Association v. Kinsey	2009 OK 31	146
2005	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Garrett· Dissent†	2005 OK 91	146
2007	Oklahoma Oncology & Hematology P.C. v. US Oncology, Inc.	2007 OK 12	128
2010	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Association v. Whitebook	2010 OK 72	127
2013	Starkey v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections· Dissent†	305 P.3d 1004	125
2014	SMITH v. CITY OF STILLWATER· Concurrence†	2014 OK 42	121
2013	State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Cooley†	304 P.3d 453	117
2006	Zeier v. Zimmer, Inc.· Concurrence†	2006 OK 98	104
2006	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Wilburn· Dissent†	2006 OK 50	97
2007	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Association v. Combs· Dissent†	2007 OK 65	95
2005	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Anderson· Dissent†	2005 OK 9	92
2005	Rogers v. Dell Computer Corp.	2005 OK 51	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 191 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 Steven W. Taylor on?: Steven W. Taylor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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21 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).