Rob Hudson
2015 - Present
2027
10
Rob Hudson is a judge for District 2 of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. He assumed office in 2015. His current term ends on January 10, 2027.
Hudson ran for re-election for the District 2 judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. He won in the retention election on November 3, 2020.
Hudson was appointed to the court on March 11, 2015, by Governor Mary Fallin (R) to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Charles A. Johnson.[1] To read more about judicial selection in Oklahoma, click here.
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[2] Hudson received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[3] Click here to read more about this study.
Biography
Hudson received his bachelor's degree in agricultural economics and accounting from Oklahoma State University in 1980 and his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1983. From 2012 until his appointment to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in 2015, Hudson served as a special district judge for Logan County for District 9. Hudson served as the first assistant attorney general. He also previously served as a district attorney and chief law enforcement officer for Payne and Logan counties.[1]
Elections
2020
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals District 2
Rob Hudson was retained to District 2 of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on November 3, 2020 with 68.0% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
|||
| ✔ | Yes |
68.0
|
934,578 | ||
No |
32.0
|
440,285 | |||
Total Votes |
1,374,863 | ||||
|
|
2016
Judge Hudson filed to stand for retention by voters in 2016.[4]
Election results
November 8 general election
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rob Hudson did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
Last updated: June 15, 2020
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.
The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[5]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[6]
- Mild Republican
- Strong Republican
This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.
Rob
Hudson
Oklahoma
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Mild Republican - Judicial Selection Method:
Assisted appointment through hybrid judicial nominating commission - Key Factors:
- Was a registered Republican as of 2020
- Appointed by a Republican governor
- State was a Republican trifecta at time of appointment
Partisan Profile
Details:
Hudson was a registered Republican as of 2020. He was appointed by Gov. Mary Fallin (R) in 2015. At the time of his appointment, the state of Oklahoma was a Republican trifecta.
Court of Criminal Appeals judicial selection in Oklahoma
- See also: Judicial selection in Oklahoma
The five judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals are selected through the assisted appointment method. Each judge is appointed by the governor from a list of three names compiled by the Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission.[7][8]
The appointed judge serves an initial term of at least one year, after which they must stand for retention during the next general election. Subsequent terms last six years.[7][9]
Qualifications
To serve on the court, a judge must be:
- at least 30 years old;
- a qualified voter in his or her respective district for at least one year; and
- licensed to practice for at least five years (or have five years of service as a judge of a court of record).[7]
Presiding judge
The presiding judge of the court is selected by peer vote, serving in that capacity for two years.[7]
Vacancies
If a judge retires before the end of his or her term, the vacancy is filled just as it normally would be, with the governor appointing a successor from a list of names provided by the nominating commission. If the appointment is not made within 60 days of the vacancy, the chief justice is responsible for selecting a replacement.[10] The appointed judge then must stand for retention in the next general election after he or she has served one year on the bench to serve out the remainder of his or her predecessor's term.[7][9]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 NewsOK.com, "Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin names Robert Hudson to Court of Criminal Appeals," archived March 12, 2015
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ Oklahoma Secretary of State, "Rob Hudson Filing," accessed August 18, 2016
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Oklahoma," accessed September 22, 2021
- ↑ Oklahoma State Courts Network, "Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission," accessed September 22, 2021
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Justia, "Section VII-B-5," accessed September 22, 2021
- ↑ Oklahoma Public Research System, "Section VII-B-4: Vacancy in Judicial Office - Filling," accessed September 22, 2021
Federal courts:
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Oklahoma, Northern District of Oklahoma, Western District of Oklahoma • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Oklahoma, Northern District of Oklahoma, Western District of Oklahoma
State courts:
Oklahoma Supreme Court • Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals • Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals • Oklahoma District Courts • Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court of Existing Claims
State resources:
Courts in Oklahoma • Oklahoma judicial elections • Judicial selection in Oklahoma
