Keith Rapp
Keith Rapp was a judge for District 2 Office 2 of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. He assumed office in 1984. He left office on August 16, 2022.
Rapp ran for re-election for the District 2 Office 2 judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. He won in the retention election on November 3, 2020.
Rapp was appointed to the court by Democratic Governor George Nigh in 1984.[1][2] Rapp died on August 16, 2022.[3]
Education
Rapp received his undergraduate degree from Southwest Missouri University and took graduate classes in mathematics and statistics from the Universities of Missouri, Minnesota, and Arizona. He then worked as an aerospace engineer and worked on NASA projects before receiving his J.D. from the University of Tulsa College of Law. He later earned an LL.M. from the University of Virginia.[1]
Career
After law school, Judge Rapp worked as a public defender and city prosecutor in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He later worked as a municipal judge in Bixby and then an alternative municipal judge in Tulsa. After this, he was a judge on the 14th District Court until he was appointed to the court of civil appeals in 1984.[1]
Military service
From 1953 to 1955, Rapp served in the Naval Reserves.[1]
Elections
2020
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals District 2 Office 2
Keith Rapp was retained to District 2 Office 2 of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals on November 3, 2020 with 64.0% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
|||
| ✔ | Yes |
64.0
|
871,490 | ||
No |
36.0
|
490,252 | |||
Total Votes |
1,361,742 | ||||
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2014
Rapp was retained to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals with 59.3 percent of the vote on November 4, 2014. [4]
Campaign themes
2020
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Oklahoma Judicial Branch Information, "Biography of Judge Rapp"
- ↑ Oklahoma Judicial Branch Information, "Court of Civil Appeals" see pg. 13
- ↑ Oklahoma State Courts Network, "Oklahoma judiciary mourns death of Coca Judge Keith Rapp," August 16, 2022
- ↑ Oklahoma Elections, "Candidate List, 2014 General Election," accessed October 17, 2014
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