Gary Lumpkin
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
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Gary Lumpkin is a judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. He assumed office in 1989. His current term ends on January 11, 2027.
Lumpkin ran for re-election for judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. He won in the retention election on November 3, 2020.
Lumpkin was appointed to this court on November 15, 1988, by Governor Henry Bellmon (R).[1] To read more about judicial selection in Oklahoma, click here.
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[2] Lumpkin received a confidence score of Mild Republican.[3] Click here to read more about this study.
Biography
Lumpkin received his undergraduate degree from Southwestern State College in 1968 and his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1974.[4] Lumpkin joined the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in 1989, and served as presiding judge on the court during the following years: 1993-1994, 2001-2002, 2007-2008, 2017-2018.[1] Before serving on the Court of Criminal Appeals he was a judge on the Oklahoma District 20 Court from 1985 to 1989, and an associate district judge on the District 20 Court from 1982-1985. Lumpkin also served as the first assistant district attorney for Oklahoma's District 20, and as an assistant district attorney in Marshall County, Oklahoma[4] He was awarded Outstanding Assistant District Attorney for Oklahoma's third Congressional District in 1981, and the William J. Holloway, Jr., American Inns of Court Professionalism Award in 1999. In 2007 Lumpkin was induced to the Southwestern Oklahoma State University's Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.[5]
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Elections
2020
Gary Lumpkin was retained to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on November 3, 2020 with 66.9% of the vote.
|
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
|
✔ |
Yes |
|
917,375 |
|
|
No |
|
453,264 |
|
Total Votes |
1,370,639 |
2014
- See also: Oklahoma judicial elections, 2014
Lumpkin was retained to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals with 62.4 percent of the vote on November 4, 2014.
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2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Gary Lumpkin did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
- See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship and Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters
Last updated: June 15, 2020
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.
The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[8]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[9]
- Mild Republican
- Strong Republican
This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.
Gary
Lumpkin
Oklahoma
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Mild Republican
- Judicial Selection Method:
Assisted appointment through hybrid judicial nominating commission
- Key Factors:
- Was a registered Republican as of 2020
- Appointed by a Republican governor
Partisan ProfileDetails:Lumpkin was a registered Republican as of 2020. He was appointed by Gov. Henry Bellmon (R).
Other Scores:
In a 2012 study of campaign contributions, Lumpkin received a campaign finance score of 0.88, indicating a conservative ideological leaning.
Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores (2012)
- See also: Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores of state supreme court justices, 2012
In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.
Lumpkin received a campaign finance score of 0.88, indicating a conservative ideological leaning. This was more conservative than the average score of 0.33 that justices received in Oklahoma.
The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.[10]
Court of Criminal Appeals judicial selection in Oklahoma
- See also: Judicial selection in Oklahoma
The five judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals are selected through the assisted appointment method.
Each judge is appointed by the governor from a list of three names compiled by the Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission.[11][12]
The appointed judge serves an initial term of at least one year, after which they must stand for retention during the next general election. Subsequent terms last six years.[11][13]
Qualifications
To serve on the court, a judge must be:
- at least 30 years old;
- a qualified voter in his or her respective district for at least one year; and
- licensed to practice for at least five years (or have five years of service as a judge of a court of record).[11]
Presiding judge
The presiding judge of the court is selected by peer vote, serving in that capacity for two years.[11]
Vacancies
If a judge retires before the end of his or her term, the vacancy is filled just as it normally would be, with the governor appointing a successor from a list of names provided by the nominating commission. If the appointment is not made within 60 days of the vacancy, the chief justice is responsible for selecting a replacement.[14] The appointed judge then must stand for retention in the next general election after he or she has served one year on the bench to serve out the remainder of his or her predecessor's term.[11][13]
See also
External links
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, "Gary L. Lumpkin," accessed June 2, 2020
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, "Gary L. Lumpkin, Vice-Presiding Judge," archived August 7, 2016
- ↑ SWOSU Alumni, "Honorable Gary L. Lumpkin - 2007," archived June 6, 2010
- ↑ OCCA Online, "Judges for Retention vote in November, 2002," archived September 16, 2002
- ↑ Oklahoma Elections, "Candidate List, 2014 General Election," archived October 22, 2014
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ Stanford University, "State Supreme Court Ideology and 'New Style' Judicial Campaigns," October 31, 2012
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Oklahoma," accessed September 22, 2021
- ↑ Oklahoma State Courts Network, "Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission," accessed September 22, 2021
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Justia, "Section VII-B-5," accessed September 22, 2021
- ↑ Oklahoma Public Research System, "Section VII-B-4: Vacancy in Judicial Office - Filling," accessed September 22, 2021
