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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1984 / Former Justice

Yvonne Kauger

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Yvonne Kauger was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1984 · 42 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Education

Oklahoma City University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kauger authored 363 published opinions for the court (1984–2018), plus 57 dissents and 103 concurrences. Most cited: Tuffy's, Inc. v. City of Oklahoma City (186 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. 271 of these were attributed to Kauger 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
2009	Tuffy's, Inc. v. City of Oklahoma City	2009 OK 4	186
1987	Fuller v. Odom	741 P.2d 449	182
2001	Keating v. Edmondson	2001 OK 110	181
1996	Max True Plastering Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.	912 P.2d 861	165
2001	Digital Design Group, Inc. v. Information Builders, Inc.	2001 OK 21	159
1994	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Farrant	867 P.2d 1279	155
1988	Buckner v. General Motors Corp.	760 P.2d 803	152
2009	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Association v. Kinsey· Concurrence†	2009 OK 31	146
1995	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Holden	895 P.2d 707	142
1993	Hough v. Leonard	867 P.2d 438	142
1987	Hinson v. Cameron· Concurrence†	742 P.2d 549	138
1995	Carris v. John R. Thomas & Associates, P.C.	896 P.2d 522	129
2010	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Association v. Whitebook· Concurrence†	2010 OK 72	127
1992	In Re Initiative Petition No. 349, State Question No. 642	838 P.2d 1	126
1997	Minie v. Hudson	934 P.2d 1082	125

Showing the 15 most-cited of 523 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 Yvonne Kauger on?: Yvonne Kauger was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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42 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).