E-mail from a listener:

     Lee, I really appreciate the homework you have done for us on the State Supreme Court Justices. (see later blog entries)

     So, how does the average work-a-day Joe (or Josephene) find out about the Civil and Criminal Court Judges on the ballot for retention?  I did find some limited information on Civil Court Judges made available by the Oklahoma Civil Justice Council, but that was only from a liability perspective.

     I listen to your show most evenings on the drive home (Tinker to Edmond). God
bless, and "Guns for everybody",

 -Dave

 Here are the Judges up for Retention.

 Court of Criminal Appeals:

  Arlene Johnson

 Carlene Clancy Smith

 David Lewis.

 

Court of Civil Appeals:

    Kenneth Buether,

    P. Thomas Thorulugh

    Robert D. Bell

           William Heatherington.

     I have looked, and read and looked.  The reason it is hard to find information on how these judges have performed is because you have to go to the individual cases they presided over.  Well, there are several hundred.  Of the ones I did find, I cannot find a reason to NOT retain all of them!