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 1936 / Served to 1948

Thurman S. Hurst

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Thurman S. Hurst was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1936–1948 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Hurst authored 605 published opinions for the court (1937–1948), plus 61 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Doss Oil Royalty Co. v. Texas Company (93 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. 62 of these were attributed to Hurst 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
1943	Doss Oil Royalty Co. v. Texas Company	137 P.2d 934	93
1943	Jones v. Freeman	146 P.2d 564	90
1940	State Ex Rel. v. Board of County Com'rs	107 P.2d 542	84
1944	Payne, County Treas. v. Jones	146 P.2d 113	81
1946	Magnolia Pipe Line Co. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission	167 P.2d 884	78
1945	Oklahoma County v. Queen City Lodge No. 197, I. O. O. F.· Dissent	156 P.2d 340	63
1943	Wimberly v. Deacon	144 P.2d 447	62
1938	Sheldon v. Grand River Dam Authority	76 P.2d 355	61
1943	R. J. Allison, Inc. v. Boling	134 P.2d 980	53
1937	Jack v. State· Concurrence	82 P.2d 1033	47
1944	Town of Chouteau v. Blankenship	152 P.2d 379	44
1937	Carroll v. Bowen	68 P.2d 773	44
1942	Hurley v. Hurley	127 P.2d 147	43
1937	Ex Parte Duncan	65 P.2d 1015	42
1947	Griffin v. Dohner†	199 Okla. 676	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 680 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 Thurman S. Hurst on?: Thurman S. Hurst was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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12 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).