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 1991

William W. Means

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

William W. Means was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1991 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Means authored 52 published opinions for the court (1983–1991), plus 9 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Kelly v. City of Tulsa (23 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. 41 of these were attributed to Means 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
1990	Kelly v. City of Tulsa	791 P.2d 826	23
1989	Eads v. Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society	785 P.2d 328	23
1985	Baker v. Baker	710 P.2d 129	22
1990	State v. Creviston· Dissent†	805 P.2d 120	20
1984	Thompson v. Madison MacHinery Co.	684 P.2d 565	20
1990	Coble v. Bowers	809 P.2d 69	19
1984	Thompson v. Andover Oil Co.	691 P.2d 77	18
1984	Luper v. Black Dispatch Publishing Co.· Concurrence†	675 P.2d 1028	18
1983	Gleason v. City of Oklahoma City	666 P.2d 786	18
1989	Adamson v. Dayton Hudson Corp.	774 P.2d 478	16
1984	American National Bank & Trust Co. of Shawnee v. Clarke & Van Wagner, Inc.	692 P.2d 61	16
1991	Douglas v. Steele· Dissent†	816 P.2d 586	13
1991	Grace Drilling Co. v. Novotny	811 P.2d 907	13
1986	Vance by and Through Vance v. Thomas	716 P.2d 710	13
1991	Browning v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety· Concurrence†	812 P.2d 1372	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 70 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 William W. Means on?: William W. Means was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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9 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).