Wallace Coppedge
Ballotpedia provides comprehensive election coverage of the 100 largest cities in America by population as well as mayoral, city council, and district attorney election coverage in state capitals outside of the 100 largest cities. This judge is outside of that coverage scope and does not receive scheduled updates.
Wallace Coppedge is the presiding district judge on the 20th District Court in Marshall County. He was elected in 2010 and took office in January 2011.[1] He was re-elected in 2014 after running unopposed for a term that expired on January 13, 2019.[2]
Education
Coppedge received a B.A. from Oklahoma Baptist University, and a J.D. from Oklahoma City University.[3]
Noteworthy events
Coppedge faced calls for his removal from the bench in 2018 after he approved a plea agreement for a defendant who admitted to raping a 13-year-old girl. Under the terms of the plea agreement, the defendant did not serve any prison time. More than 102,000 people signed a petition directed to the Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints and the Oklahoma Bar Association calling for his removal. Oklahoma Representative Mike Ritze submitted a resolution in the Oklahoma House of Representatives that also called for Coppedge's removal.[4][5] Ritzel later announced he had put the resolution on hold to focus on other issues.[6]
Elections
2014
See also: Oklahoma judicial elections, 2014
Coppedge ran for re-election to the 20th District Court.
As an unopposed candidate, he was automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot.
[2]
2010
Coppedge was elected to the district court after running unopposed.[7]
- Main article: Oklahoma judicial elections, 2010
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ www.ok.gov', "Pdf of Oklahoma 2010 candidates"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oklahoma State Election Board, "Candidates for State Elective Office 2014"
- ↑ Martindale.com, "Jack Wallace Coppedge, II - Lawyer Profile," accessed July 3, 2014
- ↑ NewsOK, "An Oklahoma legislator is putting on hold his request to have a judge removed from office," February 19, 2018
- ↑ The Washington Post, "The rapist of 13-year-old at church camp got no prison time. Now, thousands want the judge removed," March 5, 2018
- ↑ cbsnews, "No move to oust Okla. judge who approved probation for child rapist," February 19, 2018
- ↑ Oklahoma State Board of Elections, "Candidates for State Elective Office 2010"
