The Oklahoma Bar Journal December 2024

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Oklahoma Supreme Court Announces 2025-2026 Leadership

T HE OKLAHOMA SUPREME Court recently announced it has elected Justice Dustin P. Rowe of Tishomingo to serve as chief justice for a two-year term to begin Jan. 1, 2025. Justice Dana Kuehn was elected to serve as vice chief justice for the same biennium. Gov. Stitt appointed Justice Rowe to the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2019, where he served as vice chief justice since January 2023. Prior to his appointment to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Justice Rowe prac ticed law in Tishomingo and served as district judge for the Chickasaw Nation District Court. Justice Kuehn was appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court in July 2021 by Gov. Stitt. Prior to her appointment, Justice Kuehn of Tulsa had worked for the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office from 1996 to 2006, served as a judge in Tulsa

Justice Dustin P. Rowe

Justice Dana Kuehn

County from 2006 to 2017 and was appointed to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in 2017, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in July 2021.

The Oklahoma Constitution provides that the justices of the Supreme Court shall “choose from among their members a Chief Justice and a Vice Chief Justice.”

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