Who is running for Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, District 1, Office 2, Retention: Judge Jane P. Wiseman in 2026?

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, District 1, Office 2

Jane P. Wiseman has been a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals in Tulsa since she was appointed in March 2005³. Before that she was a Tulsa County district judge from 1981³. This is a nonpartisan retention question: voters answer yes or no on keeping the judge, and no party is listed on the ballot⁵.

• Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, District 1, Office 2, since March 2005; chair of the Oklahoma Supreme Court's IT Business Committee overseeing the statewide electronic case management system; past president of the Oklahoma Judicial Conference³
• District Judge, Tulsa County, from 1981, in the Family Relations and Civil divisions, where she tried close to 1,000 jury trials; earlier a special judge for Tulsa County³
• Private practice as an associate at Rosenstein, Fist and Ringold and later as a sole practitioner³
• JD, University of Tulsa College of Law; MA in American history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BA, Cornell University³
• Appointed to the Court of Civil Appeals in March 2005³ by Governor Brad Henry⁴. She was earlier appointed a Tulsa County district judge by the governor in 1981³. Appellate judges are appointed by the governor from three names sent by the Judicial Nominating Commission⁵. Voters have retained her in past retention elections, most recently in November 2020⁴. Her current term ends January 11, 2027, so the 2026 vote decides whether she serves a new six-year term².