Oklahoma Supreme Court District 6 — Dana Kuehn retention
Source: results.okelections.gov
What does this office do?
- Deciding what state laws and the state constitution mean
- Setting rulings that lower state courts must follow
- Deciding major criminal and civil cases
Affects: Public Safety and Crime Control, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Gun Control,
Dana Kuehn
Nonpartisan · Incumbent · Official site
Dana Kuehn is the vice chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, representing District 6. She joined in 2021 and had been a Court of Criminal Appeals judge, a Tulsa County judge and a county prosecutor.
Where Dana Kuehn stands, based on their records
Supports
Civil Rights (1 record)
Opposes
Women's Reproductive Rights (2 records)
Track record
Track record — Women's Reproductive Rights
Women's Reproductive Rights · 2 oppose
Joined a dissent from the decision invalidating two civil-enforcement abortion bans.
May 31, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented from recognizing a limited Oklahoma constitutional right to abortion when necessary to preserve a pregnant woman’s life.
March 21, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: law.justia.com
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 1 support
Dissented from striking down a state contract for a Catholic virtual charter school, arguing exclusion solely for religious affiliation violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause.
June 25, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: law.justia.com
Track record — General
General · 31 records
Dissented from striking down restrictions on state pension investments in financial firms deemed to boycott energy companies.
April 7, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a dissent that would have granted COVID-19 emergency-law immunity to a nursing facility and physician in a wrongful-death suit.
November 18, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an opinion holding state agency heads may also serve as cabinet secretaries under an express statutory exception to the dual-office ban.
November 12, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented from the court’s immediate invalidation of a law establishing appointed business-court judges, arguing jurisdiction and standing were lacking.
October 7, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a court order publicly reprimanding a special judge for misconduct after finding a private reprimand insufficient.
August 19, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a concurrence upholding state income tax on a tribal member living on fee land within a reservation.
July 1, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Partly dissented from answering federal certified questions about a state law restricting race and sex concepts in education, arguing the court should decline review of additional questions.
June 17, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Concurred in transferring a Cherokee children’s guardianship case to tribal court under an intergovernmental agreement, while rejecting a fresh inquiry into reservation status.
February 11, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Concurred in applying the current sex-offender residency restrictions to an earlier convicted person, while dissenting from the majority’s reasoning about whether the law was civil or punitive.
February 4, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an opinion reversing termination of a Choctaw child’s father’s parental rights because he lost access to the remote trial and the state had not followed Indian Child Welfare Act requirements.
December 10, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Partly dissented in a parental-rights case over admission of a child’s forensic interview and the appellate court’s role in reviewing it.
September 24, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Partly dissented from applying the discovery rule to a wrongful-death suit against a public hospital, arguing the Governmental Tort Claims Act required notice within one year of death.
September 17, 2024
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented on procedure for temporarily blocking abortion restrictions, arguing the court should let a trial court evaluate evidence under its newly recognized limited life-preserving exception.
November 14, 2023
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an opinion allowing a woman who suffered a miscarriage to pursue an invasion-of-privacy claim over hospital photos of her child’s remains.
June 20, 2023
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a dissent opposing reinstatement of former state senator Michael Morgan to the bar after his federal bribery conviction.
January 24, 2022
Source: law.justia.com
Was appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, becoming the first woman to serve on both of the state’s high courts.
July 26, 2021
Source: oklahoma.gov
Concurred in the result affirming a manslaughter conviction but wrote separately on why Cherokee Freedmen citizenship did not establish Indian status for federal criminal jurisdiction.
July 15, 2021
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote the opinion directing dismissal of state murder convictions because the crime occurred in Indian country and federal law deprived Oklahoma of jurisdiction.
April 1, 2021
Source: law.justia.com
Partly dissented in Brink v. State over whether convictions from the same drive-by shooting amounted to double punishment.
February 11, 2021
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented from continuing an appeal after the convicted appellant died, arguing his conviction should stand but the appeal should end.
May 21, 2020
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote separately in a capital-murder appeal that courts could test the validity of an IQ score before denying a defendant an intellectual-disability hearing.
March 5, 2020
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote the opinion affirming adult criminal prosecution of a juvenile after his earlier adjudication and guilty plea as an adult.
February 6, 2020
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote the opinion reversing suppression of blood-test evidence obtained in Kansas after a fatal Oklahoma crash, allowing the manslaughter prosecution to proceed.
January 30, 2020
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a partial dissent in Gordon v. State over appellate review of alleged trial error in a sexual-assault conviction.
October 3, 2019
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote the opinion affirming former police officer Daniel Holtzclaw’s convictions for multiple sexual assaults.
August 1, 2019
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented in Conroy-Perez v. State, arguing an injured and unemployed probationer should not have been jailed for unpaid supervision fees without proof nonpayment was willful.
April 4, 2019
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented in Winbush v. State, arguing a court must examine ability to pay before revoking probation solely for unpaid fines and fees.
November 29, 2018
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a partial dissent in Tryon v. State on admitting the murder victim’s text message and the death-penalty appeal.
May 31, 2018
Source: law.justia.com
Was appointed to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals after eleven years as a Tulsa County associate district judge.
October 2, 2017
Source: okcca.net
Sentenced Victor Cornell Miller to death on two murder counts after a retrial; the criminal appeals court later reversed both death sentences, finding one barred by an earlier acquittal of that penalty.
December 8, 2008
Source: oscn.net
Was elected Tulsa County associate district judge, winning 50.44% of the vote.
November 7, 2006
Source: oklahoma.gov
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