Who is running for Oklahoma Supreme Court, District 4, Retention: Justice Travis Jett in 2026?

Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court, District 4

Travis Jett has been the District 4 justice on the Oklahoma Supreme Court since Governor Kevin Stitt appointed him in April 2025⁴. Before joining the court he was an appellate and civil litigation lawyer in private practice, most recently in Woodward³⁴. This is a nonpartisan retention question: voters answer yes or no on keeping the judge, and no party is listed on the ballot⁷.

• Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court, District 4, since 2025³
• Private practice appellate and civil litigation lawyer; practiced at Oklahoma City firms including Gable Gotwals and Crowe and Dunlevy before joining the Hodgden Law Firm in northwest Oklahoma; argued cases before the Oklahoma Supreme Court⁴
• President of the Woodward County Bar Association in 2023; former law clerk for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee³
• JD cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, 2011, where he was editor in chief of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy; BS in agribusiness, Oklahoma State University, 2008; National FFA president, 2005³
• Appointed by Governor Kevin Stitt on April 14, 2025, to the District 4 seat formerly held by Justice Yvonne Kauger, who was not retained by voters in November 2024⁴⁵⁶. The Judicial Nominating Commission sent the governor three candidates: Jett and district judges Donna Dirickson and Jon Parsley⁵. This is his first retention vote⁶. Under Oklahoma's system an appointed judge faces a first retention vote at a general election after serving at least a year; the State Election Board lists the District 4 seat's term as running to January 13, 2031²⁶.