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 2000 / Served to 2004

Tom Colbert

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Tom Colbert was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2004 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Colbert authored 40 published opinions for the court (2000–2004). Most cited: Independent School District No. 1 of Oklahoma County v. Scott (28 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. 19 of these were attributed to Colbert 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
2000	Independent School District No. 1 of Oklahoma County v. Scott†	15 P.3d 1244	28
2004	Wilson v. City of Tulsa	2004 OK CIV APP 44	26
2001	Fuller v. Pacheco	2001 OK CIV APP 39	19
2001	Thornton v. Holdenville General Hospital	2001 OK CIV APP 133	15
2001	Tulsa Order of Police Lodge No. 93 v. City of Tulsa	2001 OK CIV APP 153	11
2004	Bird Construction Co. v. Oklahoma City Housing Authority	2005 OK CIV APP 12	9
2004	Horvat v. State ex rel. Department of Corrections†	95 P.3d 190	9
2004	Jonas v. Department of Human Services†	87 P.3d 1112	9
2001	Kohler v. Kline and Kline, Inc.†	38 P.3d 257	9
2002	Cleveland v. Dyn-A-Mite Pest Control, Inc.	2002 OK CIV APP 95	7
2003	Fleming v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.	2003 OK CIV APP 52	5
2002	Bank of Oklahoma, N.A. v. Krown Systems†	53 P.3d 924	5
2001	Deerinwater v. Circus Circus Enterprises	2001 OK CIV APP 37	5
2004	Worldlogics Corp. v. Chatham Reinsurance Corp.	2005 OK CIV APP 16	4
2004	Klassen v. Lazik	2004 OK CIV APP 46	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 Tom Colbert on?: Tom Colbert was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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4 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).