Oklahoma Supreme Court District 4 — Travis Jett retention
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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,
Travis Jett
Nonpartisan · Incumbent · Official site
Travis Jett is a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court representing District 4. He joined the court in 2025 after working as an appellate and civil litigation lawyer and leading the Woodward County Bar Association.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 17 records
Concurred in a ruling about Tulsa's criminal jurisdiction over tribal members, explaining why the Supreme Court should decide that dispute directly.
May 27, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented from a ruling that a school-insurance trust violated the Open Meeting Act, arguing a revised contract amendment qualified as new business.
May 27, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote a concurrence barring a state court from deciding rival claims to Thlopthlocco Tribal Town leadership because that would intrude on tribal self-government.
May 19, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an opinion suspending an attorney for one year after a professional-responsibility panel found multiple acts of misconduct.
May 5, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a dissent that would have treated a county jail trust as a law-enforcement agency under the Open Records Act, allowing it to withhold a video of a fatal inmate assault.
March 3, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Also on this bill
- June 24, 2025 · Dissented from dismissal of an Open Records Act lawsuit over execution-drug records, arguing the state had used an untimely dismissal motion and the case required further factual review. (General)
Dissented from the court's decision to hear a tobacco-settlement board dispute directly, arguing the case required fact development in district court.
January 13, 2026
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an opinion upholding federal emergency-law immunity for a hospital in a lawsuit arising from its COVID-19 treatment of a patient.
November 18, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Wrote an opinion revoking a courtroom interpreter's registration after her no-contest plea to felony embezzlement.
October 7, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented from the Supreme Court's decision to hear a challenge to appointed business-court judges directly, arguing the case should first go to district court; the majority invalidated the law.
October 7, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Joined a concurrence upholding Oklahoma income tax on a tribal member living on unrestricted private land inside a reservation.
July 1, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Dissented from dismissal of an Open Records Act lawsuit over execution-drug records, arguing the state had used an untimely dismissal motion and the case required further factual review.
June 24, 2025
Source: law.justia.com
Also on this bill
- March 3, 2026 · Joined a dissent that would have treated a county jail trust as a law-enforcement agency under the Open Records Act, allowing it to withhold a video of a fatal inmate assault. (General)
Was appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court after practicing civil and appellate law, including representing plaintiffs, defendants, and state agencies.
April 14, 2025
Source: oklahoma.gov
Represented challengers to the proposed independent-redistricting commission initiative; the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck its petition because the summary did not fairly describe the proposal.
February 4, 2020
Source: oscn.net
Represented alcohol distributors and manufacturers who won a Supreme Court ruling that Oklahoma could not force top-selling liquor and wine brands to be sold to every licensed wholesaler.
January 22, 2020
Source: law.justia.com
Argued for a challenge to the proposed Medicaid-expansion State Question 802 as counsel for the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs; the Supreme Court rejected the challenge and allowed signature gathering.
June 18, 2019
Source: ocpathink.org
Represented challengers to State Question 779's school-funding ballot language; the Oklahoma Supreme Court revised the ballot title but rejected their late challenge to the petition summary.
July 18, 2016
Source: law.justia.com
Was elected national president of the FFA Organization while an Oklahoma State University student.
October 29, 2005
Source: news.okstate.edu
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