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 1995

Stewart M. Hunter

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Stewart M. Hunter was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1995 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunter authored 170 published opinions for the court (1983–1995), plus 10 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Keizor v. Sand Springs Railway Co. (45 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. 106 of these were attributed to Hunter 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
1993	Keizor v. Sand Springs Railway Co.	861 P.2d 326	45
1993	J.M. v. State†	858 P.2d 118	44
1992	Fink v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety	852 P.2d 774	17
1983	Cleere v. United Parcel Service, Inc.	669 P.2d 785	17
1995	Oklahoma Employment Security Commission v. Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission†	900 P.2d 470	16
1991	Matter of Estate of Rahill	827 P.2d 896	15
1990	Wood v. Wood	793 P.2d 1372	15
1995	Olinghouse v. Olinghouse	908 P.2d 280	14
1993	Mid-Continent Casualty Co. v. Bradley	855 P.2d 145	13
1993	Chimney Rock Ltd. Partnership v. Hongkong Bank of Canada	857 P.2d 84	12
1992	Bentley v. Hickory Coal Corp.	849 P.2d 417	12
1991	Rogers v. Rahill†	827 P.2d 896	12
1985	Zaragosa v. Oneok, Inc.	700 P.2d 662	12
1984	Liberty National Bank & Trust Co. of Oklahoma City v. Garcia	686 P.2d 303	12
1994	Navistar International Transportation Corp. v. Vernon Klein Truck & Equipment	919 P.2d 443	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 185 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 Stewart M. Hunter on?: Stewart M. Hunter was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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13 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).