Keith Rapp is a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals is an intermediate appellate court in the state of Oklahoma.Cases are assigned to it by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the state's highest court for civil matters....

, the intermediate appellate court in the state of Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

. He represents District 2, Office 2. He was appointed to this position in 1984. He will be up for retention election again in November 2014, at the end of his 6-year term.

Biography

Judge Rapp was born on May 2, 1934 in Wheelersburg, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Southwest Missouri University and took graduate classes in mathematics and statistics from the Universities of Missouri, Minnesota and Arizona. He then worked as an aerospace engineer and worked on many major N.A.S.A. projects before receiving his J.D. degree from the University of Tulsa. He later earned a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia. From 1953 to 1955, he served in the Naval Reserves.

Legal career

After law school, Judge Rapp worked as a public defender and city prosecutor in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He later worked as a municipal judge in Bixby and then an alternative municipal judge in Tulsa. After this, he judged on the 14th District Court until he was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1984.

External links

• Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals website
• Tulsa World: Court of Appeals Judges on 2008 Ballot