Oklahoma judicial elections, 2014

Oklahoma judicial elections, 2014
Overview
Total candidates:	205
Primary candidates:	19
General election candidates:	187
Incumbency
Incumbents:	138
Incumbent success rate:	98%
Competition - general election
Percent of candidates in contested races:	37%
Percent uncontested:	58%
Percent retention:	5%

2015 → ← 2013
Judicial Elections
Judicial elections, 2014
Judicial election dates
Candidates by state
Supreme court elections

The 2014 Oklahoma judicial elections consisted of both nonpartisan and retention elections. District court judges (which serve on the trial level) were elected while appellate court judges faced retention.

In 2014, three justices were retained to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, one judge was retained to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and five judges were retained to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

In 2014, there were five races in the primary election: in Districts 4, 14 (2 races), 20 and 22. One candidate was automatically elected in the primary after receiving over 50 percent of the vote. In the other races, the top two candidates from the primary advanced to the general election.

District court incumbent judges had a 98 percent success rate. Of the 187 candidates who ran in the general election, 108 were unopposed. Seventy candidates competed in contested races, and three incumbent judges were voted out.

See: Oklahoma elections summary, 2014.

Election dates

• April 11: Filing deadline (district court candidates)
• June 24: Primary
• September 5: Filing deadline (appellate court candidates seeking retention)
• November 4: General election

In addition to candidate lists, this page includes information about how the state's judicial elections work, as well as articles about noteworthy news in races across the state.

General election: Contested races

(I) denotes incumbent

District 1, Harper County associate judge

• Aric Alley, 63.1%A
• Megan Simpson (I), 36.9%A

District 3, Greer County associate judge

• Eric Yarborough, 64.2%A
• Tabitha L. Mills, 35.8%A

District 3, Kiowa County associate judge

• Norman L. Russell (I), 58.0%A
• Tom Talley, 42.0%A

District 5, Comanche County associate judge

• Lisa Shaw, 73.4%A
• Scott Ray, 26.6%A

District 5, Office 1

• Emmit Tayloe (I), 52.5%A
• Jay Walker, 47.5%A

District 5, Office 2

• Joshua A. Creekmore, 46.9%A
• Ken Graham, 53.1%A

District 7, Office 1

• Aletia Haynes Timmons, 58.1%A
• Joel A. Porter, 41.9%A

District 7, Office 13

• Amy Palumbo, 49.5%A
• Roger Stuart (I), 50.5%A

District 7, Office 15

• Don Andrews, 61.1%A
• Jarrod Heath Stevenson, 38.9%A

District 7, Office 2

• Kysha M. Williams, 33.1%A
• Thomas E. Prince (I), 66.9%A

District 7, Office 3

• Donald Deason (I), 77.7%A
• Orenthel Denson, 22.3%A

District 8, Kay County associate judge

• David R. Bandy, 60.1%A
• Michael C. Trewitt, 39.9%A

District 10, Office 1

• M. John Kane IV (I), 75.0%A
• Phil Best, 25.0%A

District 11, Office 1

• Curtis L. DeLapp (I), 77.7%A
• Marty Meason, 22.3%A

District 12, Mayes County associate judge

• Shawn S. Taylor (I), 58.2%A
• Tammy Ward, 41.8%A

District 14, Office 1

• Caroline Wall, 52.1%A
• William C. Kellough (I), 47.9%A

District 14, Office 10

• Eric W. Quandt, 36.4%A
• Mary Fitzgerald (I), 63.6%A

District 14, Office 14

• Jill Webb, 36.1%A
• Kurt Glassco (I), 63.9%A

District 14, Office 2

• Sharon Holmes, 52.1%A
• Tanya N. Wilson, 47.9%A

District 14, Office 8

• Doug Drummond, 61.3%A
• Mark Barcus (I), 38.7%A

District 14, Pawnee County associate judge

• Ken Privett, 27.9%A
• Patrick Pickerill (I), 72.1%A

District 15, Office 4

• James Walters, 48.7%A
• Thomas H. Alford (I), 51.3%A

District 15, Sequoyah County associate judge

• Kyle Waters, 50.1%A
• Matt Orendorff, 49.9%A

District 16, Le Flore County associate judge

• Marion D. Fry, 71.5%A
• Pat Pate, Jr., 28.5%A

District 17, Choctaw County associate judge

• Billy Baze (I), 68.6%A
• Thomas J. Hadley, 31.4%A

District 18, Pittsburg County associate judge

• Tim Mills, 66.2%A
• William H. Layden, Jr., 33.8%A

District 20, Carter County associate judge

• Brett Morton, 40.6%A
• Thomas K. Baldwin, 59.4%A

District 20, Love County associate judge

• Gary Brown, 27.0%A
• T. Todd Hicks, 73.0%A

District 20, Marshall County associate judge

• Gregory L. Johnson (I), 53.3%A
• Michael Haggerty, 46.7%A

District 20, Office 1

• Aaron Taber, 46.4%A
• Dennis Morris (I), 53.6%A

District 21, Garvin County associate judge

• Kristin R. Jarman, 40.0%A
• Steven Kendall (I), 60.0%A

District 21, Office 5

• Jeff Virgin, 59.0%A
• Steve Stice, 41.0%A

District 22, Pontotoc County associate judge

• Heather Hammond Wright, 43.6%A
• Lori Jackson, 56.4%A

District 24, Okmulgee County associate judge

• Cindy Pickering, 57.7%A
• Pandee Moore Ramirez, 42.3%A

District 25, Office 1

• David E. Youngblood, 44.0%A
• Paula Inge (I), 56.0%A

Retentions

The following judges were retained in the general election. In retention elections, the incumbent judge is not being evaluated against an opponent. Rather, he or she simply receives votes of "yes" to retain or "no", do not retain.

Appellate courts

Court	Judge	Votes
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Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	Brian Goree	61.0%A
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	Deborah Barnes (Oklahoma)	62.0%A
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	Gary Lumpkin	62.4%A
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	Jane Wiseman	60.9%A
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	Jerry Goodman	60.9%A
Oklahoma Supreme Court	John Reif	59.0%A
Oklahoma Supreme Court	Joseph Watt	59.9%A
Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	Keith Rapp	59.3%A
Oklahoma Supreme Court	Tom Colbert	62.6%A

General election: Uncontested

The following candidates were elected or re-elected after running unopposed in the general election.

Trial courts

Court	Candidate
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1st District Court	A. Clark Jett
20th District Court	Aaron Duck
7th District Court	Barbara G. Swinton
13th District Court	Barry V. Denney
7th District Court	Bernard Jones
16th District Court	Bill D. Welch
7th District Court	Bill Graves
14th District Court	Bill LaFortune
26th District Court	Bob Hughey
3rd District Court	Brad L. Benson
16th District Court	Brian Henderson
10th District Court	Bruce David Gambill
7th District Court	Bryan C. Dixon
11th District Court	Carl G. Gibson
14th District Court	Carlos Chappelle
21st District Court	Charles Gray
20th District Court	Charles J. Migliorino
2nd District Court	Christopher S. Kelly
23rd District Court	Cindy Ferrell Ashwood
7th District Court	Cindy Truong
3rd District Court	Clark E. Huey
25th District Court	D. Clay Mowdy
14th District Court	Daman H. Cantrell
14th District Court	Dana Kuehn
15th District Court	Darrell G. Shepherd
24th District Court	David N. Martin
5th District Court	Dennis Gay
4th District Court	Dennis Hladik
15th District Court	Dennis N. Shook
4th District Court	Don A. Work
14th District Court	Doris L. Fransein
24th District Court	Douglas W. Golden
2nd District Court	F. Pat VerSteeg
2nd District Court	Floyd Douglas Haught
5th District Court	G. Brent Russell
26th District Court	Gary E. Miller
22nd District Court	George W. Butner
5th District Court	Gerald F. Neuwirth
7th District Court	Glenn M. Jones
22nd District Court	Gordon Allen
21st District Court	Greg Dixon
24th District Court	H. Michael Claver
12th District Court	J. Dwayne Steidley
15th District Court	J. Jeffrey Payton
4th District Court	Jack Hammontree
14th District Court	James M. Caputo
17th District Court	Jana Kay Wallace
14th District Court	Jefferson D. Sellers
2nd District Court	Jill Carpenter Weedon
18th District Court	Jim D. Bland
18th District Court	Jim Pratt
24th District Court	Joe Sam Vassar
23rd District Court	John Canavan
23rd District Court	John D. Gardner
6th District Court	John E. Herndon
1st District Court	Jon Parsley
16th District Court	Jon Sullivan
5th District Court	Keith Byron Aycock
24th District Court	Ken Adair
17th District Court	Kenneth Farley
15th District Court	L. Elizabeth Brown
Second District Court	Laurie E. Hays
24th District Court	Lawrence W. Parish
14th District Court	Linda G. Morrissey
7th District Court	Lisa T. Davis
4th District Court	Loren Angle
21st District Court	Lori Walkley
9th District Court	Louis A. Duel
4th District Court	Mark A. Moore
19th District Court	Mark Campbell
24th District Court	Mark Ihrig
15th District Court	Mark L. Dobbins
5th District Court	Mark R. Smith
5th District Court	Michael C. Flanagan
17th District Court	Michael D. DeBerry
2nd District Court	Michelle Kirby-Roper
4th District Court	Mickey Jay Hadwiger
15th District Court	Mike Norman
8th District Court	Nikki Leach
15th District Court	Norman D. Thygesen
7th District Court	Patricia G. Parrish
4th District Court	Paul K. Woodward
Eight District Court	Philip A. Ross
9th District Court	Phillip C. Corley
25th District Court	Preston Harbuck
7th District Court	Ray C. Elliott
14th District Court	Rebecca B. Nightingale
3rd District Court	Richard Darby
7th District Court	Richard Kirby
6th District Court	Richard VanDyck
4th District Court	Rick Bozarth
4th District Court	Robert E. Davis
13th District Court	Robert E. Reavis
13th District Court	Robert G. Haney
19th District Court	Rocky L. Powers
1st District Court	Ronald L. Kincannon
11th District Court	Russell Vaclaw
1st District Court	Ryan D. Reddick
6th District Court	S. Wyatt Hill
12th District Court	Sheila A. Condren
23rd District Court	Sheila Kirk
21st District Court	Stephen Bonner
9th District Court	Stephen R. Kistler
12th District Court	Stephen R. Pazzo
22nd District Court	Steven Kessinger
12th District Court	Terry H. McBride
21st District Court	Thad Balkman
4th District Court	Tim Haworth
7th District Court	Tim Henderson
22nd District Court	Timothy L. Olsen
4th District Court	Tom Newby
21st District Court	Tracy Schumacher
3rd District Court	W. Mike Warren
20th District Court	Wallace Coppedge
14th District Court	William J. Musseman

Primary

For candidate lists and results from the judicial primary on June 24, 2014, please see: Oklahoma judicial primary elections, 2014.

Process

District court elections

Judges of the district courts run in nonpartisan elections after four-year terms. If two candidates are competing for one seat, their names will appear on the ballot for the general election. If more than two candidates file for one seat, they will compete in a primary election. If one candidate receives a majority of the votes in the primary, that candidate is elected and does not need to run in the general election. If no one receives a majority of the votes, the two candidates with the most votes will compete against each other in the general election. Unopposed candidates do not appear on the ballot.

Retention elections

Judges of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Court of Civil Appeals run in retention elections after six-year terms. In these elections, judges do not compete against another candidate, but voters are given a "yes" or "no" choice whether to keep the justice in office for another term. The retention elections are held on general election day.

Noteworthy events

The following articles were current as of the dates listed.

One judge elected in Oklahoma's primary June 26, 2014

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See also: JP Election Brief: Survival of the fittest as more candidates are eliminated' Results from Oklahoma's primary election: In total, there were 18 candidates in five judicial races across four different districts. One candidate was elected after receiving over 50 percent of the vote in the primary: Justin P. Eilers. He received 50.3 percent of the vote after running against Jeremy Bays and Mike Stake for a district judge position in District 4. He did not need to run in the general election. There was a total of 9,209 votes cast in that race, including absentee ballots and early voting. In the remaining four races, no candidate received the majority of votes, so the top two candidates had to face each other in the November general election. District 14 had two races. For Office 2, Tanya N. Wilson (29.7 percent) and Sharon Holmes (33.5 percent) moved on to the general election. Holmes received 114 more votes than Wilson. Marijo Copeland and David C. Phillips are out of the race, receiving 22.2 percent and 14.6 percent of the vote, respectively. In District 14, with the race for Office 14, incumbent Kurt Glassco received 48.6 percent of the vote. Consequently, he had to run against Jill Webb, who came in second place with 28.1 percent of the vote, in the general election. Webb received 12,753 fewer votes than Glassco in the primary. Jon R. Patton and Michael Jordan Fairchild were eliminated. The results were similar in the race for Carter County associate judge in District 20. Thomas K. Baldwin, a special judge, got 48.5 percent of the votes, while second place candidate Brett Morton received 25.9 percent. Tim Burson and Bob Pinkerton were the other two candidates, but were eliminated in the primary. In District 22, the race for the Pontotoc County associate judge resulted in Preston Draper receiving 29.2 percent of votes, and being eliminated. Lori Jacksonreceived the most votes with 37.5 percent, and Heather Hammond Wright came in second with 33.3 percent. Oklahomans could vote for one of these two in the November election.

Five judicial races in Oklahoma primary next week June 19, 2014

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See also: JP Election Brief: Retention tension, a supreme court candidate on trial, and an election decided by coin toss The Oklahoma District Courts hold nonpartisan elections to choose judges, and the primary took place on Tuesday, June 24. Only races with more than two candidates appeared on the primary election ballot. In 2014, there were five of those races. If one candidate received over 50 percent of total votes, they were automatically elected without needing to run in the general election. Otherwise, the two candidates who received the most votes went up against each other in November alongside all of the other races with only two candidates. In District 4, there was a three-way race for the spot held by Judge Ray Dean Linder, who did not seek re-election. The candidates were Mike Stake, Jeremy Bays, and Justin P. Eilers. District 4 contains Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major, Woods, and Woodward counties. District 14, which consists of Tulsa and Pawnee Counties, had two races in the primary. David C. Phillips, Tanya N. Wilson, Marijo Copeland, and Sharon Holmes ran for Office 2. Kurt Glassco, who assumed the judgeship in 2009, had three opponents. They were Jill Webb, Jon R. Patton, and Michael Jordan Fairchild. There were four candidates running for the Carter County associate judge position in District 20. They were Bob Pinkerton, a city attorney; Tim Burson, an an assistant district attorney; Brett Morton, an attorney in private practice; and Thomas K. Baldwin, a special district court judge in Carter County. Lastly, in District 22, Preston Draper, Heather Hammond Wright, and Lori Jackson ran to be a Pontotoc County associate judge.

Oklahoma primary election overview April 24, 2014

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See also: JP Election Brief: Primary match-ups across the nation In Oklahoma, judicial candidates only appear on the primary election ballot if more than two people filed for the same race. Races with just two candidates will not occur until the general election in November. In 2014, only five judicial races for the primary took place on June 24. Three races were for district judge positions and two were for associate district judge positions. The five races were: Oklahoma District 4, district judge: Office 1 Counties of: Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major, Woods, and Woodward Mike Stake Jeremy Bays Justin P. Eilers Oklahoma District 14, District judge: Office 2. Counties of: Tulsa and Pawnee Tanya N. Wilson Marijo Copeland Sharon Holmes David C. Phillips The holder of this seat was Judge Jesse S. Harris, who did not file for re-election in 2014. Oklahoma District 14, District judge: Office 14 Kurt Glassco (incumbent): Glassco was the only judicial incumbent running in the primary election. He was appointed in 2009 by Governor Brad Henry, and won election to the court in 2010. Jon R. Patton: Patton ran again this year after being defeated by Glassco in the 2010 election. Jill Webb Michael Jordan Fairchild Oklahoma District 20, Associate district judge: Carter County Bob Pinkerton Tim Burson Brett Morton Thomas K. Baldwin Oklahoma District 22, Associate district judge: Pontotoc County Heather Hammond Wright Lori Jackson Preston Draper

See also

• Oklahoma judicial elections
• Judicial selection in Oklahoma

External links

• Oklahoma State Election Board